In response, I argue that we have public schools because (based on the data):
a) they are cheaper than private schools;
b) they out-perform private schools, on average;
c) it is better to educate than imprison;
d) education is the only modern means for social mobility.
I really hate the way people assume that education has to be associated with an institution.
I learnt very little at school. After 13 years of 'education' I still didn't know what a comma was used for.
At Uni I learnt a little more. But it wasn't until I left all the institutions that I really began to pick things up.
And what this taught me was that the basis of education is as follows. Concentrate on things that interest you. Read lots of books. Use the Internet. And talk to lots of people who are smarter than you. All of which are much cheaper than schooling.
We really need to scrap the idea in this country that schooling is the only/best form of education. It should just be seen as an option. And not forced on anyone. As it is today.
Because for many people it simply doesn't work.
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Hear! Hear! Same here. And it instills respect for authority/stifles critical thinking etc etc. I had a philosophical row some weeks back with a recent graduate in which he, well, LOST - then got stroppy and pointed out that his "work" had been "marked by respected academics". That is the mentality that's instilled: authority is important, not truth, logic etc. He was studying at the University of East Anglia! Though this is only funny in hindsight.
Speaking as a University Student now, I have to say that some of the things we are being taught is shocking!
Yesterday in my world economy lecture, looking at basic "interest rates"/"savings"/"investment" I was ready to interupt the entire lecture because of the following:
We were being taught, that lower interest rates lead to less savings (so less money "leakage" out of the economy) and more investment (more money "injections") and that this leads to economic prosperity!!
MY GOD!!!
Afterwards I made it a personal mission to discuss this with my friends... poiting out "where do the investments come from"? Savings don't just lay idel in a bank vault somewhere... they ARE investments! (in today's banking system at least)
Jesus "tapdancing" Christ (watched the Blues Brothers last night) where do they get this shit from!?!?
It really is a joke how your brought up to believe that "education education education" is going to save the world and your career prospects, but then you reflect on what you have been taught and realise how backwards half of it is!
All educashus are equal, some are more equal than others...
I learned more about English grammar from "Eats Shoots and Leaves" than from six years of primary education.
"I don't have 'education'. I have inspiration. If I was 'educated', I would be a damn fool."
-Bob Marley.
Great quote, sound money man, and I agree with everything here. I never learnt about fractional reserve banking in my entire educational life, along with loads of other completely fundamental scams. School is a joke.
Children have no reason to be in the schoolhouse (or complex, if you want) other than to free their parents to work their 9-to-5.
Once you have taught a child to read, write and count, the best thing you can do is instil a value for self-directed learning, and support them in their quest for knowledge by themselves.
I can't figure out if you really don't know that school is and has always been an option. Education is compulsory, school is not. Start here:
http://educationotherwise.co.uk/legal.htm
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