Why are education systems all over the world so broken?
Not only is it barbaric to put kids and young adults through all that shit but it seems like, ironically, it's highly inefficient. Asking bankers about astrophysics, come on. Nobody needs to know that much information by heart.
There are plenty of issues with the traditional university model of education (and a lot of those, to be fair, crop up because education on a mass scale is really difficult to do), but what you're highlighting is pretty squarely a problem with the employer.
The rat race is definitely at least partly the fault of the education system.
I know in my case the most stress (so far, I'm only 30) I've ever felt was during high school and college. You're only a few failed exams away (or in the case when transitioning from high school to college only one failed exam away) to prove you're worth some shit to society, that shit takes a toll on a young mind.
And I'm one of the lucky ones since I work in IT where jobs are abundant, the stress just fucking continues for most people.
I think a big part of the problem is that people don't view education as a form of labor, so there has never been a wide spectrum push for a "forty hour school week" or something like that. Every year the expectations get higher, there's a new standardized test to study for, and in SE Asia there's another hour of night school you have to attend.
But no matter what age a person is or what they're doing there's only a certain amount of useful work you're going to get out of them every day, and demanding that much is also inhumane because that ensures that every moment of free time the person has is spent exhausted.
Why are education systems all over the world so broken?
Not only is it barbaric to put kids and young adults through all that shit but it seems like, ironically, it's highly inefficient. Asking bankers about astrophysics, come on. Nobody needs to know that much information by heart.
There are plenty of issues with the traditional university model of education (and a lot of those, to be fair, crop up because education on a mass scale is really difficult to do), but what you're highlighting is pretty squarely a problem with the employer.
The rat race is definitely at least partly the fault of the education system.
I know in my case the most stress (so far, I'm only 30) I've ever felt was during high school and college. You're only a few failed exams away (or in the case when transitioning from high school to college only one failed exam away) to prove you're worth some shit to society, that shit takes a toll on a young mind.
And I'm one of the lucky ones since I work in IT where jobs are abundant, the stress just fucking continues for most people.
I think a big part of the problem is that people don't view education as a form of labor, so there has never been a wide spectrum push for a "forty hour school week" or something like that. Every year the expectations get higher, there's a new standardized test to study for, and in SE Asia there's another hour of night school you have to attend.
But no matter what age a person is or what they're doing there's only a certain amount of useful work you're going to get out of them every day, and demanding that much is also inhumane because that ensures that every moment of free time the person has is spent exhausted.
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