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Education

delisen

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5. Limiting education limits, prevents and ends democracy

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 8, 2022, 09:52 AM

Jul 2022

A plumber in North Korea may not need to have a deep understanding of history, geography, philosophy or civics. When you live with a sword at your back, you only need to be trained. The authoritarian dictator and their loyalists holding that sword at your back do not want to educate you to think.

If we choose to deceive ourselves into believing that education is not for everyone we are choosing to build an unequal, unfree, authoritarian society.

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What if you offer very good education to students but they don't want it? [View all] no_hypocrisy Jul 2022 OP

Problem with education is we teach to every student jimfields33 Jul 2022 #1

To a degree, I can agree. no_hypocrisy Jul 2022 #2

Probably but it's extremely difficult to do critical thinking to those who don't want jimfields33 Jul 2022 #3

Actually, I use algebra every so often. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2022 #7

Limiting education limits, prevents and ends democracy delisen Jul 2022 #5

So European countries have it wrong? jimfields33 Jul 2022 #6

Being a plumber, construction or kacekwl Jul 2022 #14

As the world progresses the more things we need to learn. Practical things get pushed aside. Srkdqltr Jul 2022 #4

Please change your perspective delisen Jul 2022 #8

Are you a teacher, or a person in a school system? Scrivener7 Jul 2022 #9

I am a substitute teacher, like an independent contractor. no_hypocrisy Jul 2022 #12

No. I'm asking the poster above me whose conclusion seems to Scrivener7 Jul 2022 #13

I beg to differ. no_hypocrisy Jul 2022 #11

It's in (or NOT in) their families. elleng Jul 2022 #10