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Published: March 9, 2021, 11 a.m.

Instead of truly educating people, we've used our school system to push out mindless drones. That is not to say that the average person today doesn't know many things that some of the smartest 500 years ago didn't. Rather, we no longer make people earn knowledge. While that's the case for traditional schooling, there are outlets offering true education. Children and young adults are looking to online courses, job trainings, and other alternative modes of education to make an impact.

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"The foundation of every state is the education of its youth."
\n-Diogenes

\nWhere Education Goes Wrong\n

Knowledge used to be something that was discovered for oneself, rather than spoon-fed by educators. Sure, you may memorize your multiplication tables or dates of historic events. But, much of the knowledge you came to was due to exploration and real learning. This means that you didn't simply know facts, but had a worldview and an epistemology to work with to know what is true.

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If we want to truly educate our children, we must find a way to fix this broken system or build a new one. Personally, I think building new would be far more effective. The education system is entrenched and pushing back against reform. The administrations, lawmakers, and teachers unions are not seeking to improve education, but to help teachers get as much as they can from the school system for as little as possible.

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Teachers unions are holding the \u201ceducation\u201d of our country\u2019s children as a hostage, and leveraging that against the taxpayer. And the thing is, they really don\u2019t have any leverage. They aren\u2019t actually providing an education. Rather, they\u2019re instilling a prideful ignorance in our children, and sending them off to be drones of the state.

\nAlternative Solutions: Online Courses & More\n

It has been nearly one year of \u201c15 days to slow the spread,\u201d and it seems like school is permanently, radically altered. And many people are seeing the weakness in our education system. Because COVID made schools worse, these options became much more tenable, and people seem to be happier than they were with \u201cnormal schooling\u201d before COVID. Kids are failing more, ADHD diagnoses are up, and the teachers are making impossible demands. This has forced people to look elsewhere.

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• Homeschooling
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• Charter schools
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• Private schools
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• Alternative solutions & Online Courses
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\nHow I Continued My Education\n

How do we move forward? What can we do now, in our own lives, to improve our education? Despite the bleak diagnosis, I see two easy changes each of us can make in our mindset and our actions to improve our education.

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1. Use school for training
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2. Seek your own liberal education
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That\u2019s what I\u2019m providing here. I\u2019m launching the first installment of my new course on the Nichomachean Ethics, which will be a greater part of my course on the Golden Mean. This is just a teaser of what\u2019s to come.

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