Concepts for Education?

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What do you think about these concepts?

1. Abolish mandatory schooling. Kids who don't care should not waste taxpayer dollars.
2. Cut the number of teachers in half, but double their paycheck. This would drastically increase the quality of teachers, but drastically increase the size of classrooms. One of the reasons all your teachers are so stupid, is because they went to graduate school only to get a 30-50k paycheck.

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It doesn't break down into such a simple dichotomy as that.

Last Summer I was a teacher for inner city junior high students who had to go to Summer school or repeat the previous grade; many of these kids were very "street smart" but couldn't find north to save their own lives.

The kernel of truth in your 5-word reductionist cliche is that all intelligence is situational and application-oriented... which is the reason why I believe it to be impossible to define intelligence in a non-arbitrary manner, and therefore impossible to teach it.