Most of formal schooling - especially in government schools - is indoctrination.
Even before #AI, I really didn't learn anything useful - much less marketable - after 5th grade or so.
Even in rather highly rated and funded "public" and private schools and colleges I attended, what I was forced to learn didn't improve my life. It would have turned out the same or better, without all that wasted time, money and effort.
I wish I had been able to drop out of school as a teenager and just started a business.
Children can't avoid learning how to think.
The rest they can learn from the internet, IF they are so motivated.
Most clearly remain rather ignorant and dumb, even after so much forced education.
It should not be wasted on most.
Teenagers should be allowed to leave coercive education as soon as they wish.
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Thanks for the input, the purpose of education is probably upstream of this conversation. I do not think of the purpose of education as finding a job or necessarily becoming marketable.
I am agreed on the indoctrination aspects of government schools. I was homeschooled (also a form of indoctrination).
The most valuable parts of my education were my homeschooling and graduate school. In homeschooling, I received the basics of the trivium. In graduate school I learned to apply the scientific method.
I definitely don't think most people should get tertiary degrees. I routinely try to talk students out of university.
The current iteration of universities is becoming obsolete, but I don't think they will be fully replaced by the internet. As a university lecturer I am very interested in being a part of what comes next.