I have this vision in my head of teaching being primarily the responsibility of retired folks.
In that society, “retirement” (and perhaps more importantly retirement benefits like Social Security, Medicare, etc.) involves spending a few hours to a day (or more, if you want) at a local school, teaching.
This:
Keeps the older generation more involved, while giving them a platform to share their knowledge/experience with the young (which is arguably the a large fraction of the value of keeping them around to begin with)
Gives students (K-12 mostly, but no reason it couldn’t include college) the chance to interact and learn from people who’ve had lives and careers already, exposing them to more options, opportunities, and cultures
Helps pay for retirement benefits by having retired folks work in the public sector (perhaps with a small additional stipend for doing so?) And we’re also only talking about ~1 class a week, unless they wanted to do more
I do quite like most parts of your vision, though it would likely need to be supplemented with a set of specialists for learning disabilities or counseling, and so on.
I like this. Mostly because my idea of perfect education is “everyone uses something like Khan Academy”, where the usual response is: “but what about the small kids who can’t read yet?” Your proposal addresses this part.
I have this vision in my head of teaching being primarily the responsibility of retired folks.
In that society, “retirement” (and perhaps more importantly retirement benefits like Social Security, Medicare, etc.) involves spending a few hours to a day (or more, if you want) at a local school, teaching.
This:
Keeps the older generation more involved, while giving them a platform to share their knowledge/experience with the young (which is arguably the a large fraction of the value of keeping them around to begin with)
Gives students (K-12 mostly, but no reason it couldn’t include college) the chance to interact and learn from people who’ve had lives and careers already, exposing them to more options, opportunities, and cultures
Helps pay for retirement benefits by having retired folks work in the public sector (perhaps with a small additional stipend for doing so?) And we’re also only talking about ~1 class a week, unless they wanted to do more
I do quite like most parts of your vision, though it would likely need to be supplemented with a set of specialists for learning disabilities or counseling, and so on.
I like this. Mostly because my idea of perfect education is “everyone uses something like Khan Academy”, where the usual response is: “but what about the small kids who can’t read yet?” Your proposal addresses this part.