My reply is a bit late as I've just come across your post but nevertheless, here it goes..
The questions you haven't asked is: Do we need an education (Sugata Mitra)?
If you believe in a future where robots will do most jobs and everyone will receive universal basic income then people need to know how to keep themselves busy. This will be different for everyone and an education that is targeted to make people uniform won't be useful at all and might lead to more problems than you can imagine.
A question I get asked a lot however is, why do you think differently? You went through the school system. So how come some of us (a minority for sure) think that something is wrong with the school system?
Hi @supermama thanks for responding, steemit.com seems a bit abondoned and broken (don't get any flags about replies!)
It is a question that is fair to ask I think. I would ask "Do we still need the education system?" besides that. Education in an ever more complex world might be unavoidable but to achieve successful outcomes it needs to shift it´s focus from knowledge based to skills based. Look at Tony Wagner's 7 Future Survival Skills.
here the system might have value, IF it can step away from the previous way of doing things... my hope for that is low. More probably that it just withers away and more and more people opt out for alternatives. Which is a tragedy because in the mean time it is stealing a good decade and a half of untold billions of children with increasingly little to show for it....