Fatbird, you suggest that we "reliably detect the optimum education environment for each student, and 2) give it to them".
Replace the word education in your statement with the word training and you have a good definition of what exists in schools around the world today.
"The secret of American schooling is that it doesn’t teach the way children learn, and it isn’t supposed to; school was engineered to serve a concealed command economy and a deliberately re-stratified social order." - John Taylor Gatto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30fxRwkBbHc
Replace the word education in your statement with the word training and you have a good definition of what exists in schools around the world today.
"The secret of American schooling is that it doesn’t teach the way children learn, and it isn’t supposed to; school was engineered to serve a concealed command economy and a deliberately re-stratified social order." - John Taylor Gatto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30fxRwkBbHc