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College Students Are Testing at the Level of 10-Year-Olds
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your mistake is to assume that there's a point in any activity at all. "the mines" are not more productive than to just sit at home, and they're not more fun either. same goes for school.
"the mines" were a deliberate hyperbole to demonstrate the absurdity. "Might as well" implies it's just as pointless either way.
I wasn't actually advocating for child labor...
A modest proposal. :)
A major issue with at least the American view of education is that it needs to be profitable, and productive, to be valuable.
Having intelligent well read people is a great boon to society on metrics that may not seem immediately tangible (in spite of having proven beneficial monetary metrics for society), because the nation has been brainwashed into believing that the only qualifier for value is material profit, in spite of that being patently false.
Yes, a commodified education system is the bane of society.
A well-educated populace is a boon to society.