"Republican Economics" and China

[HappySqurriel]

Mr Khan said:

HappySqurriel said:

 

I don't really know what the future holds, but I really don't think we're educating children to take advantage of that future ...

The 3D printers are just one of hundreds of technologies I see that bring a lot of the benefits of industrialization to individuals or small businesses. To be successful in the future economy we will need creative, independent and hardworking individuals; three traits the school system doesn't encourage.

If anything i thought the charges were that the school system fostered too much creativity and other "soft-touch" subjects, not focusing enough on hard subjects outside of Math

Two thoughts ...

Creativity doesn't have to be limited to soft subjects (after all creativity using science or engineering is called invention), and I'm not convinced that the soft subjects are really even encouraging creativity effectively. I'm not enough of an expert to know how we improve our education system for the future economy, I'm just aware that we're doing a pretty poor job today.

Once again I could be wrong but I suspect that for every "Steve Jobs" or "Mark Zuckerberg" we have today there were (probably) 100,000 children entering the education system that had the potential to become just as successful as they were but were let down by the system. If even 1% of those children became successful we wouldn't have to worry about whether China manipulated their currency.