Eric Siu argues the education system fails to teach resilience and independent learning. He says technology like iPads can help kids learn outside traditional school, and that real education means teaching students to pursue knowledge on their own.
How does someone that was maybe trained to be a cog, how do they get out of that? So the educational industrial complex is filled with well-meaning people, but the gravity of it, which was created by industrialists who want compliant factory workers, is hard to resist. And so what's the change agent? That's something I talk about in the book. A change agent changes the system with force. The change agent is, well, yeah, but if I hand an iPad to a kid, it's completely outside the zone of the— Educational industrial complex. So things are going to shift. So now some 4th grade teacher walks in and their kid, 1, 3, 4 kids already know calculus. That's because they did it outside of the system. And so I think what we need to figure out how to do is teach people resilience and initiative. If we can enroll a generation in the idea of initiative, the tools will be available. But if they don't have initiative, then we got troubles. Got it.
