If Kids Enjoyed School

Students in school and developers in open source software both do work, but achieve very different results. On the one hand, open source developers novel projects of their own choosing and set their own deadlines. On the other hand, teachers assign students to jump through hoops by certain deadlines. Unlike the open source environment, school kills incentive to innovate because school work has no real value outside school. The open source paradigm has a superior power to motivate because contributors like what they do and make something of value for themselves and the world. Other systems, like school, would be wise to adopt some of these principles.