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> ...if already-educated workers are the norm... That's the point -- there's a difference between education and training. It is only an issue because so much o

> ...if already-educated workers are the norm... That's the point -- there's a difference between education and training. It is only an issue because so much of the education looks very similar to the desired training. It is not the purpose of an education to produce new employees, but to provide a broad basis for experiencing and making sense of the world. It just so happens that you also learn transferrable skills like a basic familiarity with a particular field, along with some tools and techniques that help you organize and solve problems. A proper education is not an extended code bootcamp, nor should it be.

nateabele 11y ago
> That's the point -- there's a difference between education and training. Excellent point. Two problems: (1) Over the past ~2.5 generations, the narrative about education has been informed by the conventional wisdom of {grades -> university -> job -> pension}. Hence, education is now only nominally about producing 'citizens of the republic' (so to speak), and de facto about producing well-trained workers. Disambiguating these goals is important, but hampered by... (2) The perverse incentives created by cheap government money encourage malinvestment (i.e. an English degree [I say this with love — my wife is an English major]), and the consequent propensity of industry to not only see it as a jobs program, but also as a government policy problem.