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> Education being compulsory for students who don’t want it is an extreme social mistake and one we should remedy as soon as possible This is foolish. Contrary
by pard68 3y ago
> Education being compulsory for students who don’t want it is an extreme social mistake and one we should remedy as soon as possible
This is foolish. Contrary to the current insistence, children do not know what they want. They do not understand what they need. They are not small adults, they are children and children don't think ten minutes ahead let alone decades. Adults with the best interest of children (ideally their parents) are the ones responsible for thinking of their futures and making them do stuff today so they can have a good tomorrow.
- hotpotamus 3y ago> don't think ten minutes ahead let alone decades I have to say that given what adults are currently doing to the planet, I'm not convinced that they're capable of planning decades ahead or thinking of the best interests of their children either. Like, I'm not thrilled to be the perpetual doomsayer of HN, but reading someone talking about decades into the future in the context of children really bums me out these days. As a child I really thought the adults would sort things out, but increasingly it just looks like doom, and that's hard to accept.