I was reading this bit of fluid thinking by Aaron Davis and this thought popped in to my head, so I had to draw it. The idea of different tributaries combining to form a wide river at the source, and the wide displacement of the river’s delta as it meets the sea surely fits the education system metaphor. However, reflecting on what I had created, two things bothered me. Firstly, the stretch in the middle is uniform. Secondly, the whole river system follows the path of least resistance…
![The River of Education](https://bryanmmathers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/river-of-education.png)
River of Education
River of Education
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