Mine is that schools should teach more non academic subjects like car mechanics. Things like history aren’t relevant to a lot of students, so broaden the curriculum by teaching them things they’ll engage with.

  • aaron@infosec.pub
    211·
    3 days ago

    Things like history aren’t relevant to a lot of students

    Oligarchs, and fascists need an uneducated population of working people.

    “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat,” announced Reagan advisor Roger A. Freeman during a press conference on Oct. 29, 1970. Freeman, an economics professor at Stanford, was also an advisor to President Richard Nixon." https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/threat-of-educated-proletariat-created-the-student-debt-crisis/

    This is one of the many roots of the fascist oligarchy currently unfolding in the US.

    Replacing education with the acquisition of a skill that can be sold to capital (for less than capital earns from that skill) is a mistake you might not have made had you had a better education in history.

    • CheeseToastie@lazysoci.alOPEnglish
      61·
      3 days ago

      Yes, absolutely agree. Sorry I’ve not been clear, I’ve seen subjects seen as irrelevant lead to core group young people with poor engagement dropping out of school. Teach it alongside more practical options to facilitate overall engagement