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.
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