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>> The purpose of education is not labor preparation :) > It absolutely, unequivocally is. People can romanticize it anyway they want, but formal education is
by tivert 3y ago
>> The purpose of education is not labor preparation :)
> It absolutely, unequivocally is. People can romanticize it anyway they want, but formal education is very different than religion camp, painting class, or spiritual retreat training.
No it isn't "absolutely, unequivocally." What specific formal education are you talking about?
Especially in the past, but continuing somewhat into the present-day, formal education has mainly been about enculturation, and not "labor preparation." That can seen clearly by the former emphasis on dead classical languages and the continued (though lessened) emphasis on literature and similar subjects. There's zero value in reading Shakespeare or Lord of the Flies from a "labor preparation" standpoint.
However, I do see a modern trend where many people are so degraded by economics that they have trouble perceiving or thinking about anything except through the lens of economics or some economics-adjacent subject.
- ifyoubuildit 3y ago> There's zero value in reading Shakespeare or Lord of the Flies from a "labor preparation" standpoint. There is zero labor prep value in learning to extract information from text (that you possibly have no interest in reading)?
- Workaccount2 3y agoEnculturation is just to make it so people who otherwise cannot bear much economic fruit can at least not be producing negative value. Studying the classics, if nothing else, should at least produce a well adjusted human. That in and of itself has value. But those are the fringes of the education system. The core focus is on producing high value citizens that will produce far more than they take. This is abundantly clear if you look at the social valuations of high caliber students with fruitful degrees.