Yeah, project based learning. What is interesting about this is that that's how people actually work today!

Identify possible projects. Evaluate their impact and required investment. Pick one with best return on investment and set goals for it. When and what you hope to achieve.

Then start doing, have with some cadence checkins on how are you going against goals and why.

Learn, adjust, improve. Pivot if needed.

Applicable both in work and in out of it.

I wish that schools worked more like startup accelerators. Kids have choice of projects to pursue. Make YouTube video, Medium article, sell something on Etsy... Everything they can do today, with help of adults here and there.

So they try that, probably fail, trough failure learn the need for learning, doing better. Kids today can start working and earning way earlier. From home. Under supervisions of adults!

I was thinking about this for years. Sadly have no idea how to start or contribute to something like this...

Recently stumbled on a guy with similar views

trough interview with Lex Fridman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeH7qKZr0WI

They speak about many things in those 7 hours of talking :D But he touched on education there and I found his other video where he focuses only on that here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPN5lToZKFE

This one only 8 minutes

One thing that striked me there was

"In the 1800s, families would have many children who worked on farms from a young age, contributing productively and being 'cash flow positive' due to their valuable labor"

"The shift from this early productivity model occurred with the rise of factories, where "unscrupulous" owners would exploit child labor, leading to the implementation of child labor laws and an "infantilization" campaign, extending dependency periods and delaying the onset of adulthood and work"

But we can do it differently today. But how to move in that direction...