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>But we aren't taught how to negotiate, question authority, organization (the real kind, not the following orders kind), collective bargaining, solving conflict
by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
>But we aren't taught how to negotiate, question authority, organization (the real kind, not the following orders kind), collective bargaining, solving conflicts and compromising as equals etc. These are _essential_ life skills.
It's against "the system's" interest to teach these things to any useful degree.
At the bare minimum the institutions that are responsible for the bulk of the teaching in our society would be making their own jobs harder if they taught that stuff.
- dgb23 4y agoIt's not "the system" but particular political interest groups. It comes in the form of disallowing certain books and teaching practices, emphasizing dominant/mainstream culture and subordination and a traditional sounding, distortive narrative. This is fueled by a lot of money and emotional propaganda. The counter reaction has increasingly become bureaucratic and moralizing instead of empowering and democratizing, which doesn't help the issue IMO.