School teaches you to ask for permission rather than take action. School teaches you compliance, not discovery.

School doesn’t teach the skills you need in the real world like how to build things, how to find problems to solve, or how to think for yourself.

— Shane Parrish (@ShaneAParrish) November 18, 2021

As someone who just retired from 25+ years of learning I cannot deny what Parish asserts.  What I want to know is whether or not we can use our existing systems to show how to build things, how to find problems to solve, or how to think for yourself.  Can we?

Here’s a reminder from Robert Pirsig of the difficulty here:

Pirsig’s use of the word “factory” is apt. If it’s going to get done, guess who’s going to do it?