> The most straightforward way to incentivize is to simply reward the behavior that you want to promote.<p>I've seen first hand a child learn to read. By far their biggest incentive is the fact that written text appears literally everywhere (in a city environment). To them it's like unlocking a superpower. A monetary reward in comparison incentivizes passing the literacy test, it does not incentivize actually being able to read.
Henrik Karlsson is a really awesome writer. His "writing a blog is a long, complicated search query" article actually got me into blogging (not that I'm any good yet, but that's the point!)<p>I had learned recently that (apparently) public schools Just came from a time when Rockefeller wanted more factory workers, so we took to training up the local populace.<p>I think my only main question on public schooling, is: why don't we teach kids how to survive? Kids on dysfunctional homes don't learn how to cook, look at nutrition labels, budget, learn how insurance works, learn how insulation works. Everything is just a black box to them. (Speaking from experience)