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Old 03-05-2011, 11:02 AM   #11
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You know, looking back I forgot that we were actually discussing hypothetical future schools and not present ones.

In any case the technology is already available to alter schooling quite a bit. And without dumping more pork into the DoE either.

What schooling will be like one hundred years from now is hard to imagine. Maybe it will be more diverse; with access to incredible amounts of information there will be a lot of choices. Then too career specialization will probably be greater. That would have an affect.

Also you have to make an allowance for social structure. Some school systems fit some cultures better then others. Sorry you can't teach Fremen Planetology in a classroom. Not gonna happen. You can teach them with a charismatic Wise Old Man like Liet.
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Old 03-05-2011, 11:07 AM   #12
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A vote against raising IQ.
Differently educated would mean differently able but better able to do Anything seems unreasonable. How about an increased rate of gain of skills. Instead of 15cp of background skills, they get 20cp?
Would there be any limit on the curriculum, eg no terrorist enabling? What happens to kids who just clear off and go looking for "fun", eg standing on street corners, wandering in fields?
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Old 03-05-2011, 11:10 AM   #13
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Research and Computer Operation/10 skills for sure. Maybe 1-3 other skills as emphasized by the "cybericulum". I agree with the raising of IQ in general.

This sounds like it would make for a very useful lens.
Computer operation is an obsolete skill by TL 10. Computers capable of intelligently parsing language make it pointless.
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Old 03-05-2011, 11:12 AM   #14
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A vote against raising IQ.
Differently educated would mean differently able but better able to do Anything seems unreasonable. How about an increased rate of gain of skills. Instead of 15cp of background skills, they get 20cp?
Would there be any limit on the curriculum, eg no terrorist enabling? What happens to kids who just clear off and go looking for "fun", eg standing on street corners, wandering in fields?
Now there's a creepy thought. But that objection does have merit; not everyone comes from a happy home. Nor is every child's idea of fun in the Laura Ingalls category.

I suppose you would have to factor the CR of a given society into that sort of thing.
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Old 03-05-2011, 11:14 AM   #15
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It is a constraint that kids have to stay in these schools until they are eighteen: they cannot go matriculate early, but with highly-flexible open-ended individual curriculums they won't run out of material and get bored.

What GURPS skills should a student have who was educated in such a school system? Just a wide range of defaults in IQ-based skills?
With flexible, open-ended curricula, many skills would be the student's choice. Other, general skills that such an holistic education would provide would be classic and contemporary languages, Acting or Performance, Anthropology or Sociology, Artist, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Current Affairs, Economics, First Aid, Geography, History, Law, Literature, Mathematics, Public Speaking, Research, Singing, Writing, and whatever takes the place of Typing and Driving and other skills for operating the then-current technology. There should also be a skill for nutrition and a musical instrument, and music and art.
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Old 03-05-2011, 11:18 AM   #16
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Computer operation is an obsolete skill by TL 10. Computers capable of intelligently parsing language make it pointless.
Hard to say, as I've never handled a TL10 computer. Nor do I know what will be desired by the programmers.

Actually you might go into more depth to describe what you are conceiving with this.
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Old 03-05-2011, 11:25 AM   #17
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It is a constraint that kids have to stay in these schools until they are eighteen: they cannot go matriculate early, but with highly-flexible open-ended individual curriculums they won't run out of material and get bored.

What GURPS skills should a student have who was educated in such a school system? Just a wide range of defaults in IQ-based skills?[/QUOTE]

They can also work early rather then(or as well as) matriculate early. A youth is fit for work far earlier then the present arrangement of the educational system allows. They can also marry earlier; more can marry in their twenties.

College level courses can be studied while in the process of work if widespread computer usage is available.
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Would there be any limit on the curriculum, eg no terrorist enabling? What happens to kids who just clear off and go looking for "fun", eg standing on street corners, wandering in fields?
The LAIs are supposed to uphold the law, so they won't let kids run free; imagine your very own truant officer.

Terrorst-enabling is a judgment call. You can't teach Chemistry safely, for example, without letting people know what catches fire and what blows up.
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Old 03-05-2011, 11:27 AM   #19
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One thing that can be done is simply bribe students for grades. Some sniff at that but it has advantages. For one thing it is a clear and obvious reward. For another, a student raised in an anti-intellectual environment has an obvious response to peer pressure, "Hey, I like money; who doesn't."
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Old 03-05-2011, 11:44 AM   #20
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Computer operation is an obsolete skill by TL 10.
Or the details of what you're doing simply change. If the computer is intelligent and interacts with natural language, then getting it to do what you want becomes more like a social skill, or psychology or management. You persuade, order, cajol, bribe, trick, or force them into doing what you want. But unless computers think and are motivated exactly like people, it would still be a different skill.
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