Best educational system in history?

[Cero]

Imagine this scenario: You are a dashing, dapper time-traveler, or CDP (Chrono-Displaced Person) who can, in fact, travel outside your own life time. You have exactly fifteen years before an inevitable act of the space-time continuum (or God) sends you back in time to a randomly selected time period to live out the rest of your days. You decide to spend those next fifteen years pursuing an education. Assuming you can select any period of time in which to pursue an education, which will best prepare you to face history?

tl;dr: At what point in history do you think the educational system best prepared its people to face the world?

Edit: Assuming you don't end up in a society similar to the one we currently live in, say, pre-20th century, what educational system would you benefit from the most? A degree in mathematics or chemistry is surely of benefit in this century and the previous one, but if faced with pre-Napoleonic europe, I'd definitely be looking at an education that stressed humanities and languages rather than science. Similarly, if faced with medieval europe, a knowledge of different languages, as stressed in 18th century universities would benefit me the most.

 

[Untitled.]

Serf in feudal Europe.

 

[2ndLifeBrigadeWilliam]

Modern day Sweden or Denmark. They pay you money to go to school and have a very good school system in every level.

 

[Untitled.]

Are you sure about that? Sounds like an urban legend to me.

 

[Rhox]

I'd study at this same time and place, I would only want other people.

 

[Shatari]

I'll skip ahead into 2036, where the resistance has started injecting the knowledge directly into your mind, during our brief breaks between mining Martian eye worm larva for our robotic overlords. My goal is to acquire enough knowledge to be able to stop our future before it begins, or at least be able to build my own robotic army and enslave the world first.

 

[Dodes]

1989 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

[Divayith]

I would say the present day Nordic states as far as a public system goes.

 

[Dodes]

I don't think it is fair to group Sweden and Norway together just because of Finland's success. 

 

[Catholic]

The United States is pretty ****ty for all students who struggle or are mediocre, but for those who excel I honestly cannot complain. I've had the option of running several programs, and I've taken those opportunities. I've been given the opportunity to do college courses in high school, and I'm essentially doing two years of college in high school, which will likely let me skip my freshman year of college. Thanks to my socioeconomic status, I can go to essentially any school I like while paying very little. American teaching at the lower levels is atrocious - it assumes everyone is an idiot and forces knowledge into the brain instead of allowing creative exploration. At the higher levels, though, you have free reign over your education.

So I can't complain.

From what I've heard, though, Finland's got quite the system that works.

 

[Dodes]

I found that this is quite comprehensive on Finnish education.

 

[Cero]

Assuming you don't end up in a society similar to the one we currently live in, say, pre-20th century, what educational system would you benefit from the most? A degree in mathematics or chemistry is surely of benefit in this century and the previous one, but if faced with pre-Napoleonic europe, I'd definitely be looking at an education that stressed humanities and languages rather than science. Similarly, if faced with medieval europe, a knowledge of different languages, as stressed in 18th century universities would benefit me the most.

 

[Kevlar]

You decide to spend those next fifteen years pursuing an education. Assuming you can select any period of time in which to pursue an education

Pretty sure I would go back in time, buy the winning lottery ticket, repeat (for 15 years).

 

[Dodes]

Assuming you don't end up in a society similar to the one we currently live in, say, pre-20th century, what educational system would you benefit from the most? A degree in mathematics or chemistry is surely of benefit in this century and the previous one, but if faced with pre-Napoleonic europe, I'd definitely be looking at an education that stressed humanities and languages rather than science. Similarly, if faced with medieval europe, a knowledge of different languages, as stressed in 18th century universities would benefit me the most.

367 BCE, Athens

 

[user1324865215]

None US scool system are best USA USA

 

[Radalan]

The rock, paper, scissors system invented some fifty thousand years  ago.

 

[Dodes]

I'm going to make a wild guess and say that rock, paper, scissors was not invented before paper and scissors were.

 

[Radalan]

Of course, back then it was simply the rock system.

 

[Bromden]

The bigger rock wins? I like that system.

 

[Swissky]

Are you sure about that? Sounds like an urban legend to me.

I get study subsidaries monthly, 1050 kronor per month (135 Euro) plus extra for food. On topic : Ancient Greece made their students think about their studies (Think themselves over math problems and alike) but the information given at the time was most likely incorrect due to little research.