Max_Daniel comments on Education not meant for mass-consumption

[Max_Daniel]

Tail-effects in education: Since interventions have to scale, they end up being mediocre to “what could be possible.”

Related: Bloom’s two-sigma problem:

Bloom found that the average student tutored one-to-one using mastery learning techniques performed two standard deviations better than students educated in a classroom environment with one teacher to 30 students

(haven’t vetted the Wikipedia article or underlying research at all)