A critique of blaming individual effort for educational outcomes. The speaker argues that systemic complexities, including "unknown unknowns" people can't address, and misaligned stakeholders like parents and teachers, prevent any single person from creating real change.
And there's just, I think sometimes this culture particularly wants to make it all individual responsibility, but there are challenges, just what you don't, I've heard you say what you don't know, you don't know. You don't know what you don't know until you know. There, that. And it's amazing how much the parents or the teachers or all the different people, actual people in these different layers of different kinds of systems that are interacting and not always Often, not always, but often not in a synergistic way. As much as individuals would like it to be, the way it operates doesn't lend itself to that.
