The biggest problem with modern formal education is that all of the incentives are screwed up. There&#x27;s a race toward optimizing certain &quot;metrics&quot; and making progress on paper to the detriment of actual learning. Sometimes I wonder whether the educational system actually helps more than it hurts. So much of &quot;education&quot; is not about learning, and in fact turns students away from learning. It&#x27;s amazing that the system works at all really.