Rubik's Cube

Learned how to solve one this weekend (takes 5 mins, I use a beginner method for now) but the goal is sub 1 min eventually. How many people can solve this using actual math? Genuine question being asked. 

Imagine everyday if school was focused on Rubik's Cubes, riddles, and paradox based situations once the student gets to be 11 or 12 years old. What kind of thinkers would we generate? What kind of knowledge would we advance for and against God? What kind of technology would be made and how many kids would stay out of poverty and trouble? Maybe our math should be based on real world examples such as business or computer programming, our reading based on historical classics, and history be taught in-full with no redactions. We should want all our information applicable and pure.

Instead, schools babysit because the law makes them while students learn information I can Google and find a 5 min YouTube video on. Today's learning is based on diversity, equity, and inclusion without a need to advance past basic regurgitated (and opinionated) rhetoric. It is about being "in" vs challenging ideas. Schools are failing, and it is evident by test scores, politician rhetoric (aka look at what voters accept in terms of mannerisms and policy), and other countries blowing past us into a new age of exploration virtually. So what do we do?

Start from the basics. Schools should be establishing platforms to share ideas and for others to challenge those with reason, evidence, and thought. Students should be specialized in what they want to learn much earlier than junior year of college, and some students should not be forced to go to college. Start emphasizing advancement rather than "equity", that's just a term so everyone fails equally.

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