What Would A Steemit School Look Like? [@axios VISION]

What if you could get paid to go to school?

For real though! What could that mean for the experience of education?

As an educated millennial, I personally felt that my experience largely revolved around ME providing tangible value to the school up front and leaving school, feeling as though that tangible value wasn't equally returned.

I've been imagining a world in which the actual act of learning, growing, and building things actually creates tangible value in real time.

A world where, instead of sending young people into the world with their wallet already six feet under, they have an abundant wallet with tangible skills, relationships, and resources to show for it.

Where classrooms are much less about encouraging the "sit and repeat after me" method, and much more geared towards present moment engagement, collaboration, and experimentation.

I know this is already happening in a variety of private school systems, but I would like to see more of it, especially on a mainstream level.

Understanding The Value Of Money

One major issue that I have with the United States' education system is the fact that they encourage students to make major financial decisions before they even understand the value of money.

At a mere 18 years of age, students are encouraged to invest $50 to $200,000+ of money that they don't have via student loans to then deal with the consequences of that decision four years later.

Unfortunately, most 18 year olds have very little understanding about the value of money and how to properly utilize it.

Being in school from kindergarten through high school, most have not even experienced the real world on their own!

Exchanging Value In Real Time

I was thinking about the concept of Steemit and how we are already exchanging value on social media - why not at school too?

This would not only be a great way to incentive students to learn and try new things, but it would also teach then the value of currency, how to save it, invest it, donate it, etc.

In my opinion, the best way to learn anything is to actively engage with it.

By giving students the opportunity to create a financial ecosystem of their own, this could provide them with valuable experiences where they could make mistakes, learn from them early on, and familiarize themselves with the one of the most important aspects of life: the exchange of value.