Reply #1: There is a telling irony there, I agree.

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Another good question revolves around the actual purpose behind modern education, (which centers more on productive work than aquiring knowledge, per se). Just what are we educating them for, in that sense?

Currently we are experiencing a chaotic miasma in the area of employment and industry here. Experienced workers and college graduates are rowing across the ocean of industry in leaky boats with broken paddles and no life preserver. So, what are the far reaching implications of modern-day education, even in its, dumb-them-down, churn-them-out state? Are we simply going to put them on a conveyor belt of basics though the grades and then let college become an afterthought for smaller numbers and, of course, the privileged?

Generally speaking, just what does a career mean in a future based on our current, seismic, economic shift? You really don't need to know much at all to exist merely as a service industry peon for the rest of your life.