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fleamarketenthusiest t1_ixc4qh1 wrote

Reply to comment by Dmeechropher in Genetics combined with long years of schooling and little time outdoors can lead to myopia by Quiglius

Maybe if it was supposed to prepare you to be a well rounded and socially adapted adult ready to handle society at large

In reality its just conditioning children to be acceptable in whatever the local dominant industry is while keeping them ignorant to the inner mechaninations of society- ie. How to do their taxes- so that they can grow up to be nice little docile tax-cattle-consumers that wont ever develop enough social, ecenomic, or political power to ever be in a position to change the system that keeps them and their offspring in that cycle.

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Rauleigh t1_ixckaif wrote

If u listen to any high school student they will tell u how they wish their teachers had taught them how to do their taxes! I still wish I understood how to do it so I didn't have to pay an online service to work it out and could actually have full agency in my economic life.

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Dmeechropher t1_ixdj086 wrote

It's not that deep. Society & government know school is valuable, and good school is better, but reform, especially national reform, is really difficult. Different regions think they want different things, as do different voters.

The easiest approach is to incrementally require some new standard, a new test, new collection of content, etc etc. The problem here, for me, is that I think the system needs LESS of most things and MORE subtlety and nuance for the the things which remain.

Problem is: most educators and policy makers were educated in the main stream. The ideas I have, which are more normal in other places or at other times, are just alien to them.

There isn't a national conspiracy to keep people as quiet tax paying cattle because there doesn't have to be. People like being quiet tax paying cattle. Education is about helping people produce more throughout their lives because a rising tide raises all ships.

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