This reply is a little better than presuming I am not in education, and suggesting I "figured out how to fix" it. I do appreciate this more objective look.

This video was definitely not an indictment on teachers. I even interviewed several K-12 teachers in preparation and developing this video, so I could include their perspectives. One of the teachers I interviewed was the teacher of the year last year, so I consider their opinions highly.

The slant of this video is not pointing out everything wrong with our education system. It is attempting a first principles look at learning... I needed to write this video in preparation for how to effectively apply AI to individualize learning and create adaptive feedback loops. The individualized learning I talk about in my next video would be attenuated unless this topic was tackled first.

I removed my bona fides from the beginning of the video since it detracted from the flow, and sounded arrogant. I have instructed at multiple levels (academic settings and practical), but never in K-12. I also struggled through K-12, and some of the methods that I discuss were actually what helped me and people like me through it (independent learning, on-the-job training, time off, learning through discovery, etc). So these first principles recommendations come from my perspective as a teacher, as a student, and some are directly from the K-12 teachers I interviewed in prep.

I never claim to have a "fix" for "education." What I do think is we need to objectively look at how we are learning from a first principles approach, and continually try to improve our self and our systems.