Game Theory #2: Why Schools Suck - Professor Jiang (Transcript) - The Singju Post
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Professor Jiang uses game theory to expose why schools are structurally doomed to fail students — and why no individual teacher or student can fix it alone.
Game TheoryPrisoner's DilemmaIncentive StructuresPrincipal-Agent Problem
Theory Briefing
- Professor Jiang argues that schools are trapped in a classic prisoner's dilemma, where incentives push all players toward bad outcomes.
- Teachers, students, and administrators each act rationally in their own interest, yet collectively produce a system nobody actually wants.
- The lecture suggests that without changing the payoff structure of education, individual effort is nearly powerless against systemic failure.