Quote Originally Posted by Rhyfelwyr View Post
Everything we learn at school, in a classroom, beyond 13/14, is indeed useless. Put more people on useful apprenticeships, they don't need know Arthur Miller's foreshadowing techniques in Death of a Salesman, or how to calculate a tangent off a parabola (or something like that) in order to do whatever jobs they will most likely end up doing.

In fact, I would say our Victorian attitude to education is a very bourgeoisie take on things, that has only widened inequality. In effect, it leaves everyone without pushy parents or a brain for academics without any real skills to make a future with.


You got it wrong.

We do not, not, not teach the youths about Shakespeare or advances math because they need it. And yes indeed it is wasted on the majority. However, we do teach it to find those who can learn from it.

What do you prefer, to find the kids who belongs in the upper echelon, or to skip past them because their [insert number] other classmates will not get it anyway.

And as a side note, we teach them about the fine arts and advanced science in the hope that it will make them more contributional members of society. Better they know it and dont need it, than them needing it and not knowing it.

Get my point? Or at least one of them?