Planting Seeds in the Field of Knowledge

Universities need to stop treating education as a business and understand that the reason most students are in college is to get a degree, which in this day and age, hopefully will get them a job. Therein lies the problem. Take for example personal hobbies. People don't master a hobby because they have to, they do it because they want to. Students obviously don't want to go to school, they do it because they have been told, or because they have come to understand that's the only way to get ahead in this world. Make them WANT it! Let education become a hobby, not a job. I am all for the saying, "If it's not broken, don't fix it." But this does not imply that something cannot be better. Remove the traditional sit in a lecture and listen to someone talk. The idea that listening to someone talk is beneficial to one's learning is absurd. In regards to accelerating education, stop using ancient ideas such as, "don't use a calculator". When you develop a tool, use it. Use that tool to learn how it works, and then build new tools with that tool. Don't throw it to the side and ignore it. It is my belief that there will come a time when the knowledge required to make advancements in a field such as computer science, will require more time than an individual has to live. This is an obvious problem. A solution is to kill two birds with one stone. Take for example physics, math, and computer programming. Why no learn all three at the same time? Teach math by programming math. Teach physics by creating 3D games. Vary the difficulty of the learning based on each student, not a set curriculum. Also, teachers need to be more like managers while the students teach each other. You will always have bright students, and bright students who take longer to understand. Pair them together and let the learning begin. The teacher can then utilize their time to check each students understanding individually and provide feedback as to what the student is doing well and what needs more attention. It is ridiculous that people would even think or consider allowing one individual to try and teach 10, 20, 50, 800 students at one time. Let 800 students teach 800 students. Some serious rethinking needs to take place with the world and the education system for humanity to make it further than previous world civilizations.