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DataWorker | 5 years ago

Education isn’t an answer. It’s good and we should as a society optimize for it, but it’s vastly overrated. There will always be cognitive differentials. Educated people are easily duped by uneducated conmen and putting people in a classroom for more of their young adulthood won’t change that much at all. And don’t get me started about “re-education” camps. It’s great to have an abstract one size fits all cure for the ills of society, but “education” is not the panacea people like to pretend it to be.

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matwood|5 years ago

> Education isn’t an answer.

Maybe not the only answer, but it's a good start. And not just science and critical thinking, but also humanities and history.

Judgmentality|5 years ago

> Education isn’t an answer.

What do you think would be better?

WalterBright|5 years ago

Right. I can't think of anything better, either. But at least we try.