I agree with Dawg.
And frankly, the best one can do online, is either "own" a site and educate visitors in ones own ways, or as we do here, provide a site where everyone can provide their own perspectives and opinions and let the readers pick and chose whatever makes the most sense to them in their unique situations.
A few threads can be dedicated to tasking or writing and such, but they will (rightly) be the opinions and teachings of the few moderators in charge of those threads.
And while Lord Winter's desires may be laudable, how will you ever get consensus or alignment on a curriculum, even on the simplist of definitions.
No one throws new forum members into deep waters. They have plenty of opportunity to read first, to ask questions, and to do a little research. We individually and severally answer the questions posed as best we can, but we have zero ability to enforce our guidance on anyone. So how would a curriculum, assuming you could get agreement, change that? People will do what they wish to do regardless of any structural change.
Lastly, though you may think this site could be much improved in its educational qualities, I would point out the hundreds of dead sites that tried to teach their version of "the one way" or "the right way" and drove off their audiences. This site persists, perhaps because of its approach, to let people participate to the extent they wish, to opine freely, and to keep the conversations current.






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