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A Boring Dystopia
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Yeah I've been saying for years that this is a problem, and people just called me elitist. Like, excuse me? If expecting college students to perform at a college-level is elitist, then what the fuck is an education even for? It's just a degree-mill at that point.
Might as well send kids to the mines right after middle school at that point instead of making them spend years jumping through hoops and gaining no knowledge or understanding of the world just so they can qualify to be exploited for menial labor in an air-conditioned setting...
"College level" means more than most people know. Standardized tests have a tendency to be racist. The average going down is bad.
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.