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karlboll
· 2 years ago
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You'll also find a lot of quiet rebels working diligently but silently to overthrow the established order.
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smileyoufucker
· 2 years ago
Manufactured Consent
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guest_
· 2 years ago
Some truth here- school is often to prepare you for life and by the numbers in the world- most people will spend 5 days a week, 6-8+ hours a day and sometimes weekends and nights- most of the year- doing repetitive work and following directions and having to defer to authority figures even when they don’t think they are right. So as most schools run- they are pretty good at that. With that said- the sort of person produced by a school has more to do with the person than the school. Someone who has a goal and is going to achieve it is generally someone who won’t be stopped and will do what they must go reach it. Higher education really is mostly- and in the west and many other cultures in history has often been- a form of gate keeping. Higher education traditionally unlocks doors to higher paying careers and proximity to status. Getting a job as an executive at a major company might pay you millions of dollars just for getting fired. Don’t you think more people would be competing…
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guest_
· 2 years ago
.. for many of those jobs if they were open to anyone…? If being able to argue well, to learn some decorum and memorize some rules was enough to be a lawyer- how many teens could make serious money part time working cases on the weekends or something? Well off, well born people make the rules for the most part. Those rules are meant to keep them secure in their positions. They generally want to try to make sure their kids have security to the same life. A doctor can generally afford the advantages to ge t their child into a “good school” and unless their child is set on not being financially comfortable or is very unlucky or inept- they will probably be able to be well off too. It’s simple causality. If you graduate from a University, your odds of making decent money are generally better than otherwise. Therefore your ability to provide advantages for your children- to either lay for their university or provide an environment that fosters then to achieve on their own- are generally..
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guest_
· 2 years ago
.. higher. So many jobs can be “learned on the job” or “picked up as you go” without need for a degree- but the degree creates a requirement that motivates competition for many high paying or influential career paths. Of course children following parents is a thing- if Mom makes good money as a construction worker, she has connections in construction and can teach her kids from an early age, they’re more likely to be able to find an easier path to good money if they go in to construction generally. If Dad is a Doctor, his kids might be doctors or they may go into other skilled fields more easily because he had the wealth for things like higher education and social networking with other kids from more financially well off homes. So there’s a lot to be said about college. All together- the type of person that comes out of any school has more to do with the person than the school. Some schools may have better curriculums or provide better opportunities to network or work on the forefront
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guest_
· 2 years ago
of new ideas- but really… when we look at people who “change the world,” or even people who tend to do well in life- barring the exceptions- looking at their lives before they went to college- they tended to already be on a trajectory that implied they’d do more.
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