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I think the primary function of mass schooling is to warehouse kids somewhere off the streets and out of the workplace, avoiding having to adapt adult spaces to
by JulianMorrison 11y ago
I think the primary function of mass schooling is to warehouse kids somewhere off the streets and out of the workplace, avoiding having to adapt adult spaces to kids being around. There's a secondary function as a meaningless token mill, for use in pseudo meritocracy. And a tertiary function, much underfunded, of education.
- jxdjsks 11y agoThis. It's about economics. It's about extracting value from the parents. It's about making the children, who are the workers of the future, more compliant. You may consider it conspiracy theory, to me it's just obvious.
- JulianMorrison 11y agoTo the person who deleted their comment that it's about compliance. That's an often heard conspiracy theory, but IMO, the main strike against it is that it doesn't work. The USA, compared to eg: Singapore, does not turn out particularly compliant graduates.