Have schools adapted to a rapidly advancing society?

It can be tempting to embrace a narrative that others have used that support your personal views. In my case, I acknowledge that there's a lot that my side gets wrong. I believe that the best approach to education involves supporting the right to leave control of our anti-educational government. Although I prefer educational choice over school choice, I acknowledge that any choice is better than no choice.

A common argument that I have encountered in favor of school choice is that government-controlled schools have not adapted well to our rapid rate of progress. There is some validity to this argument. Society has definitely changed more over the years than our schools. The problem is that we are definitely not living in an era of rapid progress.

No matter how I look at it, I can't find a way to view our rate of progress as even satisfactory. We are primitive compared to all expectations as to where we would be at this point. Moore's law is pretty much dead, but I never liked the idea of measuring progress purely by looking at a specific number. Where we are really suffering is in the establishment of new ideas.

Pretty much all of what little progress we are still making was set into motion decades ago. In the last two or three decades, the only idea coming to mind that nobody anticipated was wheeled hoverboards. It gets even worse if you look at industries that are supposed to be creative. Look at Hollywood. All they are capable of right now is recycling old scripts.

The big innovation that people are currently talking about is artificial intelligence. We were actually supposed to have full artificial intelligence by now. In other words, machines were supposed to be able to think for themselves. Instead, we have expanded machine learning, which is not a new concept, to improve the performance of chat bots. Chat bots are also nothing new. While the current approach might be more advanced, it's still unreliable. We can only get reasonable results to questions that these bots have not been trained on. If you have a unique perspective, this really hinders the value of these platforms.

I have tried these AI platforms. I don't want to portray them as worthless. At the very least, they are capable of providing aggregates of multiple sources and rewording text. Beyond that, practicality remains seriously limited. Like the chat bots before then, I find results too unreliable. This may be an improvement over older chat bots, but it's not really anything new. These platforms are more iterative than revolutionary.

I would say that we are historically stagnant. We are pushing citizens from a young age through schools that systematically destroy minds, I don't think this is coincidence. I openly blame the schools for our plummeting rate of progress.

This is where I differ from most school choice advocates. I keep hearing that our rapid rate of progress requires a new approach to education. I don't believe for a second that our heavily schooled society is rapidly progressing. Instead, I believe that we need a new approach to address historical stagnation.