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When everything is standardized and trained with specificity, as our school system is, we are turning people into automatons. The trouble with automatons is th
by decasteve 13y ago
When everything is standardized and trained with specificity, as our school system is, we are turning people into automatons. The trouble with automatons is they get automated.
We have been moving, for the past 50 years, into an era where there is still a staggering amount of work that needs to be done but there is no singular defined "job" to employ a person from their early 20s until their mid-60s retirement.
- VLM 13y agoThis is the classic "education" vs "training" argument. For a variety of weird political/cultural/doublespeak reasons we're not allowed to discuss the difference, they're supposed to be synonyms. However, an education lasts a lifetime and gives meaning to life and a lifetime of interesting things to think about, and ways to think. Job training is just a meal ticket. You can guess which philosophies applied in pre-industrial vs modern K-12 .edu and which applied in pre-tuition bubble and post-tuition bubble university .edu in the USA. There is quite an impedance bump going from HS senior to Univ Freshman because of this conversion from pure training automaton setting to at least still partially an educational setting.