# Educational Box Checking By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2023-02-11 Today education is not about learning but checking a box. The standards to check that box lower every day. Adult learning and development that is real and significant requires attention and motivation. All too often, the motivation to get an educational degree is to get money. Hence, the emphasis on checking boxes as hiring and work systems aren't meritocracies but manipulation and projections of power. Tragedies abound in educational and work systems. We are all worst off for it as we forget that development is a life long journey of progress. Instead, we act like everything one needs to knows stops at the age of 14. The rest is just building up your power projection and debate skills. #### Related Items [[Education]] [[Business]] [[Meritocracy]] [[Power]]