Curriculum is designed based on the premise that information & knowledge is scarce. There is no point in having a currcium in an age where the internet and Artificial Intelligence made information & knowledge so widely accessible. The logic of a curriculum is as follows: because information and knowledge is scarce, they should be curated together so that it's easier to mass-teach and assess with standardized tests. Standardized tests can only be standardized on a fixed set of curriculum. However, this cannot be more rediculous in 2025. There is nothing you can't learn from you classes on the internet. Apart from the "human" part unique to the teacher, of course. However, some teachers have nothing stronger than ChatGPT. --- Humans have come up with an unimaginably large quantity of knowledge since the beginning of our civilization. A large proportion of them are indeed outdated. And a small proportion of them are still developing and constatly being challenged. Those a curriculum will not cover. From the rest, a curriculum picks out the ones that he thins are the classic and important ones, and especially the ones that are easy to teach and tested upon. As a result great stuff and important stuff are often missed out -- logic, system dynamics, just to name two -- as the selection of course materials is an arbitruary choice that is subject to human bias. human bias is not scary -- what's detreimental is that there is no way to easily fix them and there are no or week self-correction mechanisms. Even if teachers or students realize that important parts are being missed out, they have no or little power to change. Teachers are tools of the curriculum to teach, and students are machines to learn. Changing the curriculum is an extremely imporbably task. And curriculums are updated once a year at most, and they seldom introduce large changes. Curriculum designers thought they are discovering truth about the world by handpicking those important knowledge, while in fact they are creating order. Students thought they are learning from the knowledge of previous human generations, however what they are actually learning is the curriculum's choices and the tests, submitting to the curriculum. --- We don't need a curriclum reform. We need to reform the basis of any curriculum. Fundamentally, we don't need a curriculum to decide what I learn. I should learn anything I want in this world, as long as it's relevant to my life and contributes to my goal, or helps me search for that goal.