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My Vision for our Education System

Highly individual and self-paced

Martin Thoma
3 min readJan 21, 2025

In school you have 10–35 students in one room, being taught by one teacher. The teacher speaks, the students listen. While there are some variations, this is true for 70% of the time at school since many years.

This system has many problems:

  1. Inflexible curricular in a changing world: Technology is shaping our world in a fast pace. We have jobs today that didn’t exist 20 years ago — and many aspects of jobs have drastically changed. Curricula have changed as well, but it’s unclear to me if they are actually good.
  2. You are all individuals: But at school we are often treated as if we were all the same. Some people are bored in math lessons while it’s way to fast for others.
  3. Sick days: When the teacher is sick, the students might miss important lessons in school. When a student is sick, they don’t know what happened — even if they could mentally participate (e.g. with a broken leg that prevents them from accessing the room). It’s stressful, and it excludes people. It stops people from getting educated.
  4. Refugees, migrants, and adults: There are all kinds of people who wouldn’t fit in a normal class room. Still, they might be interested in getting a similar kind of education. We should do our best to give them…

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Martin Thoma
Martin Thoma

Written by Martin Thoma

I’m a Software Engineer with over 10 years of Python experience (Backend/ML/AI). Support me via https://martinthoma.medium.com/membership

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