• Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I mean I’ve got things to say:

    • When did education become a cure for stupidity?
    • “Free and Mandatory” is some fucking newspeak if I’ve ever heard it.
    • “Save our planet and mankind from mankind”, the big rock will be fine.
    • “Teacher should be the best paid and praised job in the world.” this will just attract the sort of people who become mega-pastors, celebrities and politicans into the role.

    Like don’t get me wrong, I’m glad to have recieved a state education, it’s a jolly good thing, but let’s not oversell it.

    • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      For your education then, I benefitted from free and mandatory education. Free as my parents nor I did have to sell a kidney or get indebted: mandatory as it was illegal for my parents to pull me out of school before 16. (yes, illegal)

      Now I wish the quality would have been a notch up, but the era was already full speed reducing the supposed “cost” of the education system and civil servants, not weighing in the societal benefits. 40 some years later and the trend hasn’t reversed yet