IDK why we expect kids, whose brains are still being developed, to make perfectly rational decisions when adults struggle with this as well.
Is there a psychology equivalent of the spherical cow in physics?
Is there a psychology equivalent of the spherical cow in physics?
Maybe set up a society where intellectual effort and achievement is rewarded and teachers get paid well enough to make being knowledgeable seem a laudable thing?
And this before we get into structural things that seem to be designed to thwart the goals of advancing knowledge economy: soaring costs of higher education, making college loans non dischargeable in bankruptcy, schools unable to eject disruptive students that are at the same time burdened with security preparedness caused by constant active shooter threat.