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A protest sign I saw is an apt response to the situation: "Why should we go to school if you won't listen to the educated?"
by yboris 6y ago
A protest sign I saw is an apt response to the situation:
"Why should we go to school if you won't listen to the educated?"
- sfotm 6y agoBecause education is valuable regardless of whether or not everyone listens to you?
- triceratops 6y agoIf no one listens to you, who is a formal education valuable to, exactly? I assign no personal value to the pieces of paper I got from the various institutions I've graduated from - society and the job market values them.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoTo you, even if nobody listens to you.
- triceratops 6y agoI already answered that.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoNo, you didn't. You said you don't assign any value to the piece of paper. Find, but did you actually learn anything in the process? That has value, to you. Now, perhaps your point is that the formal education didn't matter, that is, you could just as easily have learned the same thing by informal means. That is true, if you had the self-discipline or curiosity to do so. While you may have had that, and I did, many who attend public school do not. The things they learn are still of value to them.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoTrue, but not the point. The point is that those in authority are acting both inconsistently and stupidly.
- sfotm 6y agoI can understand the sentiment well enough. The person holding the sign has the impression that experts in epidemiology aren't being listened to by some people. But their education is still very much in play and is clearly valuable, so I don't think the sign is really making a useful point. It's just complaining.
- cellularmitosis 6y agoAnd how much value is provided to a dead kid?
- ars 6y agoThat's a pretty dumb sign I have to say. Just because someone is educated doesn't mean they are right, or that someone should listen to them. Not to mention someone could be educated and right about one thing, and completely wrong about something else.