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A lot of people are very critical of the current education system (particularly k-12 education in the US and in India). You can easily find 100+ articles online that point out what is wrong with the system: really important things (eg: financial literacy, sex education, rights) are ignored, teaching styles are often ineffective, and standardised tests are often the only determinant of success. These are absolutely valid issues to point out. But they’re also kinda obvious – I’m sure the people in charge of running the system have thought about it.

This begs the question: why are things the way they are? Why are our leaders unable to improve the education systems? Surely, many influential people must’ve tried solving it (it’s such a big long-lasting issue)? What are the obstacles? It could totally be the case that the answer to this is simply “the education minister is incompetent, corrupt and lazy”, but there’s probably more to this issue and diving deeper will reveal a lot of useful insights. There’s not a lot of information on this online – at least not easily accessible information.