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Put another way, at least this experiment actually cared about the outcome and did something about it.

Generally, there's far too little feedback and accountability when it comes to public policy intentions vs. outcomes. Our government (US) policies and program are basically running on an open loop, no one is ever comparing outcomes against goals/intentions.

Experimentation requires looking at results of the experiments.

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In civilised countries the education of children is not subject to the whims of rich people's "experiments"

Finland is an example of such a country.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/09/10-reasons-why-finla...

I’m fascinated that you have yet to consider the fact that what you’re talking about is experimenting with children as the subjects. Or that, maybe that’s why there’s so many guard rails around, you know, experimentation in this space.

You know government programs are experiments too, just without the feedback? Do you think anyone knows for certain what the best education system is? Just because it's what the government decided doesn't mean it's not fundamentally experimental in the sense of having unknown outcomes. Maybe it just seems that way to you? I don't really know what to say, maybe you think education is solved and there's no way the government could be doing it better? That seems like a hard belief to hold with something as complicated as education.

I don't appreciate the accusation that I'm not thinking about the children. It is precisely because I care about the children that I care about the possibility of a better system for them.

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