As another person mentioned, some people have time, some people have money. These items have been available in the game and can be purchased already with stutus that you gain from city quests or PVP. So it isn't like the items are new and no one could buy them. But now someone that doesn't play 80 hours a week can also benefit from grinding to get money in real life.
Eniuin
One possible solution that it may help to adopt is an educational system similar Germany's. In the USA, we treat every child as if they are going to college. They are taught a little bit in many areas to make well-rounded citzens, with little ability to specialize until halfway into an undergraduate degree. Once you reach high school you have two options, graduate or drop out. In Germany, they begin by teaching all of the various fields like in the USA(with a little more emphasis on langauge.) After a certain point the children take an aptitude test and decide where they see their life going. The students then divert into three groups, those who enter high school(gynasium), those who go into a technical or vocational school, and then those that become apprentices and begin learning a career trade. I think this is an exceptional idea. Not everyone is created equally and from my personal experience a lot of students have no desire to be in school after a certain point and their only options are graduation or failure. As many people have pointed out, this means having great extremes in aptitude, leading to students that would excel being held back.
Another problem I see is that schools seem to be teaching to pass a test at the end of the year more and more. Most schools seem to have a standardized test now, and this stifles the ability to take tangents and really open up a subject. So many people have said that math teachers need to make it fun. Well first teaching to a test will have to change, because making math fun on a tight schedule can be difficult(I imagine).
I see that everyone is getting off topic about politics in the Nobel Prize, but the point is moot because the Nobel Prize is based on a single scientific achievement, not a scietist's entire body of work. An example of this, Einstein won the Nobel Prize for the Photo-electric effect. No more, no less. Penrose has no significant single achievement that is Nobel worthy and and experimentally proven, while many others do.
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As another person mentioned, some people have time, some people have money. These items have been available in the game and can be purchased already with stutus that you gain from city quests or PVP. So it isn't like the items are new and no one could buy them. But now someone that doesn't play 80 hours a week can also benefit from grinding to get money in real life. Eniuin
One possible solution that it may help to adopt is an educational system similar Germany's. In the USA, we treat every child as if they are going to college. They are taught a little bit in many areas to make well-rounded citzens, with little ability to specialize until halfway into an undergraduate degree. Once you reach high school you have two options, graduate or drop out. In Germany, they begin by teaching all of the various fields like in the USA(with a little more emphasis on langauge.) After a certain point the children take an aptitude test and decide where they see their life going. The students then divert into three groups, those who enter high school(gynasium), those who go into a technical or vocational school, and then those that become apprentices and begin learning a career trade. I think this is an exceptional idea. Not everyone is created equally and from my personal experience a lot of students have no desire to be in school after a certain point and their only options are graduation or failure. As many people have pointed out, this means having great extremes in aptitude, leading to students that would excel being held back. Another problem I see is that schools seem to be teaching to pass a test at the end of the year more and more. Most schools seem to have a standardized test now, and this stifles the ability to take tangents and really open up a subject. So many people have said that math teachers need to make it fun. Well first teaching to a test will have to change, because making math fun on a tight schedule can be difficult(I imagine).
I see that everyone is getting off topic about politics in the Nobel Prize, but the point is moot because the Nobel Prize is based on a single scientific achievement, not a scietist's entire body of work. An example of this, Einstein won the Nobel Prize for the Photo-electric effect. No more, no less. Penrose has no significant single achievement that is Nobel worthy and and experimentally proven, while many others do.