Thing is, I don't buy that truism. IMO technology is sometimes the best way to solve a people problem, because it sidesteps all the issues of politics and ego.
> I don't concede that children can be educated within the same concepts that are used to harvest cows and cotton.
Why not? Just like modern agriculture makes a farmer more productive per unit of land, we should strive to make teachers be able to teach more children and teach them better.
AKA the reasons why it's a people problem.
we should strive to make teachers be able to teach more children and teach them better
You're comparing apples to oranges. Agriculture does not "strive."
All in all this sounds like pie-in-the-sky thinking. The science I've seen says larger class sizes do not result in better outcomes, do you have anything that contradicts that? Anything demonstrating even a clear benefit from technology in the classroom? Anything about scaling? That is, is what you're proposing anything more than imaginary?
But they're consuming money and attention that could be redirected to solving real problems. I know, this is a perpetual complaint with someone in any crowd.
How about we reduce the number of teachers (and have the remaining be paid fairly) by making education scale?
Unless you have an innovation in mind that I haven't seen, I fall back to the copiously documented truism that you can't use technology to solve a people problem.
See also my agriculture example.
I don't concede that children can be educated within the same concepts that are used to harvest cows and cotton.