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The biggest problem in education isn't the curriculum or method of teaching or the teachers, it's how motivated the student is (which is usually a product of their home environment). Trying to solve this social issue with "technical" fixes is not going to succeed.

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Try motivating art students to paint fences. And never show them any "art" except different colored fences. That's what this article is about. If you teach real math, you can actually motivate people to want to learn it.

>The biggest problem in education isn't the curriculum or method of teaching or the teachers, it's how motivated the student is (which is usually a product of their home environment)

While I get what you're saying, the motivation of the student is highly influenced by the curriculum and the teacher.

Having a meaningful curriculum content with a teacher who presents it in a way which the student can relate to is surely possible (but woefully rare). Good teaching can change things around.

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