I keep seeing this, but I think people forget what things were like before we had a formalized education system. They were not good. The modern system can certainly be improved, but it has overall improved upon itself essentially since its inception. I'm not sure if there's some kind of golden age of US education people are imagining, or they're just pointing out current flaws, but it really is (unfortunately or not) the best it's ever been.

Been saying this forever, AI didn't kill the education system, it just highlighted its inadequacies and failure with higher sensitivity

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