"They want people just smart enough to run the machines..." Saint George Carlin.
What people don't seem to realize is that equating education with "preparing one for a productive entry into the workforce" would have been horrifying to literally every other culture in history.
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Germany is the leader in school model! They hate academics and like technical skills!
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Germany is *not* the leader in the school model. While there are some interesting things about it, dividing and tracking students into different schools at the young age of 10-12 has major implications for individuals' opportunities as well as equity in society
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Forget tradition. It’s horrifying period.
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Very true. Also, for many of those cultures, the horror would be at educating the workforce.
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You could be right, but I'd have thought that educating people in order that they go into the professions had a long ignoble history. And that the idea of education for education's sake is a fairly recent invention?
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Actually, most job training was through apprenticeships.
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