The writer assumes that we the audience would find it ridiculous to make adult learning compulsory, but much to their disappointment, I err more towards that th

The writer assumes that we the audience would find it ridiculous to make adult learning compulsory, but much to their disappointment, I err more towards that than getting rid of childhood education and … giving kids the… right to work? You wouldn’t even need to make adult learning compulsory. Use all of the nobel prize winning knowledge we have on nudging to normalize the idea that it wouldn’t be all that bad to go and take a class at community college every so often. It could be a remedial class, it could be something totally new. Its affordable, if you dont qualify for a pell loan (right, this is in the United States), and classes are available until 8 or 9 pm and on weekend on most campuses. Maybe from there people would find the will to go to the library every so often to fulfill their own curious itch whether with books on a subject or by using the online material available. As far as my own curious itches, my 3 year old gas range went out recently, and of course GE makes as minimal of information available on how to repair it. The display and all electronic function (the spark mechanism, most importantly) went out, so I started watching a number of videos related to electronics repair on YouTube. I did pretty badly in physics in high school, and while I can build a pc, electrical wiring and circuits have been a sort of voodoo to me, and I promised myself that eventually I’d sit down and learn it. I’ve watched multiple videos on what voltages are, how transistors, relays, resistors and capacitors work, and how to solder, reflow bgas and at least diagnose gpus and motherboards. The last couple of weeks. I opened up the back panel, found a relay on the mainboard was blown, and the quick disconnect on a wire connecting to that relay was black and covered with plastic. Because ge has seemingly discontinued the wiring harness, i have to order some new wire (18awg with a 600v and 150 degree rating) and splice that between the old wire that has no slack and a new circuit board using a wago junction (which I just learned about and ordered last night. Got a crimping tool, waiting on a auto wire stripper that hopefully won’t consistently pull strands of wires off when unsleeving said wires. I watched some videos about wiring houses last night and kinda wonder if I could service the outlets here at home. Really, writing this makes me think of the part of Bowling for Columbine where the creators of southpark explain why kids would get so angry to shootup a school. We really should try and move away from the “you couldnt pass this one arbitrary test of rote memorization so that means you will be stupid and incapable forever” to something much more forgiving where you at least go to school to be exposed to an idea and if you don’t do great on a test you can come back and revisit it another time when a contextual switch flips.