3 ms·
Is it the responsibility of the taxpayer to fund the education for the leisure activity of the upper middle classes (speaking with foreigners or reading transla
by marshallp 14y ago
Is it the responsibility of the taxpayer to fund the education for the leisure activity of the upper middle classes (speaking with foreigners or reading translated literature).
The education system that exists today (k12 + college) is a McReplica of what aristocratic people of earlier centuries considered fit for their children (who would never actually need to work). We're living the enviousness of the middle classes of a century ago (this same principle applies to the McMansions). It has no relation to what a more perfected reality could be.
With respect to google translate, I think we'll see a lot of improvements. I expect to see human level performance within 5 years (it's a "let the computers run long enough" + "enough data" problem).
- defen 14y agoWhat about countries where English is not the native tongue? Surely learning it can have huge advantages.
- marshallp 14y agoYeah, I totally agree, in non-english speaking countries it's completely justifiable (until human-level language translation comes around).
- sopooneo 14y agoOthers often claim that the current public education system is a direct descendant of a system set up specifically to create docile factory workers.