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Employed work is not everything. There is life around paid work and we may enjoy / need creativity there, for entertainment, to change the world or everything

by jraph 5y ago

Employed work is not everything. There is life around paid work and we may enjoy / need creativity there, for entertainment, to change the world or everything in between. (though there are many situations where being creative is useful nay instrumental in paid work too) If anything, children are often very creative and (early) school also acts as a way to shut down some of this creativity, teaching you to (not) behave / think like this or like this. For the better or worse. A big chunk of elementary and high school is about following instructions properly.

21723 5y ago
> Employed work is not everything. I could be wrong, but I'm interpreting the OP as expressing frustration not at the school system, but at a labor market that has no demand for creativity (except in the few remaining good jobs, which have pretty much all been earmarked by the upper classes for their underwhelming kids). That is, I don't see OP as arguing that education should be reduced to job skills, so much as that maybe we shouldn't tolerate the mismatch between an educational system that does nurture (some) creativity and the prison-like employment conditions that 99% of people will face.