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* especially using wind and solar | * especially using wind and solar | ||
== Improve access to education | == Reform education == | ||
with attention to | Improve access to education, with attention to | ||
* textbooks in languages other than Russian | * textbooks in languages other than Russian | ||
* minority-language education | * minority-language education | ||
* training of [future] teachers | * training of [future] teachers | ||
Restructure education: | |||
* The idea | |||
** Develop useful real-life knowledge and skills | |||
** Provide understanding of the wider world | |||
** Instill values of individual thinking, problem solving, community building, etc. | |||
* Curriculum refocus: | |||
** Real-life skills: | |||
*** Agriculture, modern and traditional | |||
*** Economics, with focus on trade | |||
*** Computer science | |||
** Education on outside world: | |||
*** Cultural studies / folklore | |||
*** Modern geography | |||
** General education: | |||
*** hard sciences | |||
*** social sciences | |||
*** arts | |||
== Things already getting done == | == Things already getting done == | ||
These things are getting done mostly because there's a private-sector profit incentive | These things are getting done mostly because there's a private-sector profit incentive | ||
* Communications infrastructure | * Communications infrastructure | ||
Latest revision as of 22:13, 28 March 2013
Improve transportation infrastructure
- especially roads between different areas of the country
Take a census
- with attention to language use and identity
Improve water infrastructure
with attention to
- waste water treatment
- agricultural usage
Improve electricity infrastructure
- especially using wind and solar
Reform education
Improve access to education, with attention to
- textbooks in languages other than Russian
- minority-language education
- training of [future] teachers
Restructure education:
- The idea
- Develop useful real-life knowledge and skills
- Provide understanding of the wider world
- Instill values of individual thinking, problem solving, community building, etc.
- Curriculum refocus:
- Real-life skills:
- Agriculture, modern and traditional
- Economics, with focus on trade
- Computer science
- Education on outside world:
- Cultural studies / folklore
- Modern geography
- General education:
- hard sciences
- social sciences
- arts
- Real-life skills:
Things already getting done
These things are getting done mostly because there's a private-sector profit incentive
- Communications infrastructure