Wasted Time in Schools

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"a student finishes their work before everyone else. The teacher tells them to sit in silence until the rest of the class finishes."

Is... this a widespread problem? We never really had this in my schooling except if you finished a test early, otherwise it was a teacher delivering material.

Schoolwork is systemically getting easier. I interviewed a few teachers from diverse backgrounds around the US and they've all noticed a declining trend in the difficulty of curriculum [0]. The state of things is generally: You're done with work? Well I can't give you more that would be unfair (and too much work anyway; who's going to grade it).

[0] Possibly related to repercussions of No Child Left Behind (https://www.understood.org/en/articles/no-child-left-behind-...)

Education is so hard to solve as a problem that we are likely set to have it changed with a hardware modification: brain implants or gene editing for every kids.

Brain implants aren't the way to increase "intelligence". Maybe processing power but it's not the same thing (intelligence is difficult to define). Drugs might do something (increase attention span, creativity, etc), but gene editing, once the technology gets to that level, appears to be the most realistic way.

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