Our educational goals are fundamentally at odds with the cultural values they seek to promote. Can we still study what we want and enjoy doing it in spite of this?
We typically view checklists as a sort of band-aid solution. But they are also the best kind of solutions because they are inexpensive, can be applied broadly, and are easy to implement.
Modernity offers more riches to the average person today than ever before seen. Despite this, it is difficult to justify whether mechanical progress has actually made humans any happier.
We feel that we are the distinct authors of our thoughts and opinions but have little control over the myriad of physical and biological processes within us. But wait, dont we have free will?