Here’s an idea: education should not be about jobs, it should be about raising the next generation of citizens to take over being Humanity in this world. Or maybe I’m too Greek and bought too much in this idea of “paideia”.
A bit more practically, I like Quebec’s CÉGEP system. Not everyone ends up to university but almost everyone at least gets a taste.
OK so it should be about social indoctrination towards your ideals? what if other people don’t agree with your ideals? should they just not be educated?
those things don’t exist in a vaccum, as much as you’d like to think they do. are we talking about the one where we think the modern liberal/leftism atheism is the pinnacle of human ‘critical thought’? because that’s typically the default presumption for most posters here.
We are talking about public schooling. Any system has to make choices about what counts as education, and someone will always call those choices “indoctrination.” Your extremist relativism makes public education policy impossible. In favour of what, exactly? Universal homeschooling? Go touch some grass, please.
Here’s an idea: education should not be about jobs, it should be about raising the next generation of citizens to take over being Humanity in this world. Or maybe I’m too Greek and bought too much in this idea of “paideia”.
A bit more practically, I like Quebec’s CÉGEP system. Not everyone ends up to university but almost everyone at least gets a taste.
OK so it should be about social indoctrination towards your ideals? what if other people don’t agree with your ideals? should they just not be educated?
Ah yes, indoctrinating people into… critical thinking, historical literacy, and the ability to argue in good faith. A terrifying agenda.
whose version of those though?
those things don’t exist in a vaccum, as much as you’d like to think they do. are we talking about the one where we think the modern liberal/leftism atheism is the pinnacle of human ‘critical thought’? because that’s typically the default presumption for most posters here.
We are talking about public schooling. Any system has to make choices about what counts as education, and someone will always call those choices “indoctrination.” Your extremist relativism makes public education policy impossible. In favour of what, exactly? Universal homeschooling? Go touch some grass, please.