What is the most important goal of education? The most important goal of education is to teach people to positively connect and complement each other, finding genuine happiness through positive relationships.
Toward such a goal, we should eliminate scores and ranks because they have a destructive effect on people. They support placing people on levels of pride, normalizing the idea of taking advantage of others for the sake of individual success.
As we head into a future of tightening interdependence, we need to realize that the most essential expertise we can acquire is positive connection and mutual complementarity.
We likewise need to redefine success in the process. Instead of its current egoistic definition of one person or group showing themselves to be greater than others, success should rather depend on how we create positive human relations. People actually want this. It is not that we destroy the ego by eliminating success over others. On the contrary, success in building positi