Checkbox (multiple choice, single right choice) tests are the most common way to evaluate my expertise on a topic they teach.

Projects are good, but a single evaluation point is also a huge miss. They should be evaluated through the construction of it (not just presentation). A student can take a wrong turn when starting out the project, forget to ask the teacher about it before doing it, and end up having very bad consequences.

If they were evaluated while building the project or at least in some sort of sprints, they could redirect the project as feedback was gathered/given by the professors, so the end result would be way better AND the student would actually learnt while building the project and not just get graded up on the final result of it.

After (for example) failing an exam, most students don't care about the fact that they don't know jack sh*t about the topic they're supposed to, but just that they failed it. They don't try to learn from their mistakes.

...and this is even worse with students who didn't fail. If you get just above the grade you wanted/expected, you'll never even bother checking the exam correction, if its even provided in the first place which in my case was really not that often (most of the time exam revision was possible but just too inconvenient/too much of a hassle for even me to bother attending (I had to purposely go to the university at a specific time so that I could check the exam (not even take notes from it and actually earn knowledge - most of these exam checks are really just for you to check if the teacher didn't make mistakes correcting it, and not for you to learn from the things you missed)))!

They just completely forget everything in a couple of days/weeks (from personal experience, once again, ymmv).

It seems as though tests (and the whole current education system) are simply about grading and not about actually learning and leaving knowing more stuff (that you can apply in real life) than you knew when you entered.

More emphasis should be given to simply talking and interacting/networking. I don't mean more company networking events (those exist, and actually a ton of them). I just mean it should be the norm that student talk to each other and to the teacher and actually learn from other people personally every single day.

It isn't the norm though. It seems like students only "want" (and want is a big word in this case) in the classroom, during the time they're assigned to do so.

The whole system is just numbers... Grades are basically everything they make you strive for.

There are projects and incentives you can enter, but they're just not given nearly the same level importance...

Also more time for exams! Like not most but some exams become really time-bound and that doesn't make any sense whatsoever (I mean depending on the material of course, but yeah in most cases it makes no sense to have an exam that just feels doable under the time that the teacher set up for it)

Factory-monkey type projects (this is one that feels really specific to my course, but we had a Programming group project, where everything we had to do was literally laid out in front of your eyes) shouldn't exist. They create factory workers that just do what they are told (and that's all they know how to do).

This type of project is not something that should exist as-is. Once again, creativity and critical thinking should be more emphasized.

While building group projects, you don't actually know how much each student does. Group activities/projects are important, yes, but should be much more transparent (e.g. GitHub commit history - or some sort of logging of events, more open conversations etc. idk really how this would be implemented tbh - wouldn’t even matter so much if the whole grading system wasn’t so numbery as it is)

People basically become numbers. They shouldn't. Each person's abilities are completely unique (this feels cliché to say but it's the truth). Pretending that a number can definitively say how much you know about a given topic (wider or narrower) is just a falacy!

They should be thought about as qualities. What they know about something, how they apply it, how they learnt it, etc.

Problem solving should be given more emphasis, as well as discovering solutions to problems.

We have the internet (and now the LLMs...). Nobody needs to know a formula from their head in .1 seconds. Finding and searching information is really, really important.

There should be less mandatory stuff and more optional stuff that you could CHOOSE to do.

In the age of AI

Look at Duale Ausbildung

Create an anonymous questionnaire (ask participants to be abundantly honest, with nothing to hide, and to reflect their true thoughts at the time they made their decisions):

Good ideas/innitiatives

Bad teachers are too common (in my experience especially in private institutions, but in public ones as well).

Up until high school, everything is mostly fine.

There are no major flaws. I think kids do need quite a bit of structure, and they need to learn how to behave, etc. (most of this should be the responsibility of parents, not school teachers, but still).

I would structure it like this:

That said, I won’t focus much on education before high school. It could be better, sure, but it’s not terrible. I do think a strong amount of structure and fundamentals is necessary at this stage - the foundations of knowledge: mathematics, a bit of science/physics, English, physical education, philosophy, logic/programming, and something creative (drawing, cooking, music, writing, theater, or using computer programs, say GIMP).

For physical education, students could choose a sport at the beginning of the period and stick with it because they enjoy it. Everyone in the school would practice PE at the same time, with some basic running and strength/endurance training, followed by a selection of sports each student can choose from. There should also be more basic nutrition taught.

Research is about discovering things that no one knew before.
Education is about discovering things you didn't know before!

Universities are the only one that do/offer both.

Problems:

Believes the school system is designed to cause the students stress, anxiety, and it kills the passion of learning.

Should be more about letting students develop an intelectual mindset and a passion for learning.

Should encourage more students to conduct their own research on topics that strike their interest and curiosity; children might actually enjoy reading!

School, as of now, is not really about learning; it's about passing.

He mastered the art of short-term memorization (and that's what's important for school!): cramming for tests.

Believes schools are designed to send students to college.

Also from a comment:

There shouldn't be so much as a “master” (teacher) as there currently is. Just people that know more than you and that can and want to teach you. Teachers think they have it all figured out when they don't.

There should be a bigger incentive to everyone very clearly to get smarter and get better at what they are studying.

Learning (what people think is the sole purpose of university but actually isn't - and the main one I want to tackle with the new system)

As a job for the teachers, and all the other staff that's needed to keep the facility & infrastructure running.

Simply for leaving the house (or getting away from parents etc.)

Babysitting/maturation of young adults that still don't know what to do with their lives

Research & Knowledge Production

Insurance policy for parents and for the student himself

Socializing + Parties/Events/Networking

Filtering/sorting in society