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Education system
Maybe a bit more spicy. And I’m not against education itself. Just seems like an obviously contingent system that’s got a monopolistic lock on “demand” while having glaring issues around its quality.
Just to get the context. Are you writing about the United States of America, some other countries or the West in general?
A related controversial topic related to education is the Bologna Process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_Process
I don’t know anything about this, actually! What’s the controversy?
Many post-Soviet countries migrated from Soviet-style education to the standardized Bologna process ones. The quality of education in those countries dropped sharply. Many professors resisted the Bologna process and were able to form cultured students.
In Italy there was a similar process, where they migrated from an education system that forced you to write essays to one where you put a check into the right answer. The difference has deep psychological consequences. In one case, the possibilities are infinite, you can write anything you want, even draw. In the other case, there are four possible choices and you pick the one that sounds more realistic.
You can find more information here: https://frankfurtrights.com/Books/Details/unaccomplished-utopia-13358364
Ah! Yea, resonates strongly with where I was coming from.
Something, I suppose, like “not all good things can be scaled and mechanised, and not all scaled and mechanised things are good”.