**** Elections thread *****

[Jack Sawyer]

Extremely. Public education is so bad. An otherwise robust system of education has been usurped and turned into a factory churning out laziness, self-criticism, and hiveminds. So many students are being taught so many things that do not benefit them and instead are being molded into depressed drones of mediocre skills.


Getting the government out of education would yield an amazing revolution of thought and culture.

Alright. You are saying that public education is so bad, because over time it’s a become a factory churning out laziness, self-criticism and hive-minds. People are being taught skills that they will not use in practice and therefore they are being molded into depressed drones.


I do agree that some education institutions have become degree mills, and those have to be weeded out. The irony is that most of these degree mills will give you a degree if you pay them, and that’s that. A degree does not necessarily mean a proper education. So, this proposal has the be met with certain standards by which the studies and schools have to adhere to. Fail to adhere to these, close up shop, GTFO.


I say that if the education is completely free and easily available to all, you would get higher quality of life and of workers across the board. All you have to do is incentivize the attending of the schools, that’s it. It’s not because it’s free that this automatically means that the quality of the education will suffer somehow. All these are standards which properly implemented regulatory agencies can ensure that the institutions can adhere to.


That’s all there is to it.

[BananaStand]

Alright. You are saying that public education is so bad, because over time it’s a become a factory churning out laziness, self-criticism and hive-minds. People are being taught skills that they will not use in practice and therefore they are being molded into depressed drones.


I do agree that some education institutions have become degree mills, and those have to be weeded out. The irony is that most of these degree mills will give you a degree if you pay them, and that’s that. A degree does not necessarily mean a proper education. So, this proposal has the be met with certain standards by which the studies and schools have to adhere to. Fail to adhere to these, close up shop, GTFO.


I say that if the education is completely free and easily available to all, you would get higher quality of life and of workers across the board. All you have to do is incentivize the attending of the schools, that’s it. It’s not because it’s free that this automatically means that the quality of the education will suffer somehow. All these are standards which properly implemented regulatory agencies can ensure that the institutions can adhere to.


That’s all there is to it.

Why don't they just do all that with K-12?

[wufwugy]

Alright. You are saying that public education is so bad, because over time it’s a become a factory churning out laziness, self-criticism and hive-minds. People are being taught skills that they will not use in practice and therefore they are being molded into depressed drones.


I do agree that some education institutions have become degree mills, and those have to be weeded out. The irony is that most of these degree mills will give you a degree if you pay them, and that’s that. A degree does not necessarily mean a proper education. So, this proposal has the be met with certain standards by which the studies and schools have to adhere to. Fail to adhere to these, close up shop, GTFO.


I say that if the education is completely free and easily available to all, you would get higher quality of life and of workers across the board. All you have to do is incentivize the attending of the schools, that’s it. It’s not because it’s free that this automatically means that the quality of the education will suffer somehow. All these are standards which properly implemented regulatory agencies can ensure that the institutions can adhere to.


That’s all there is to it.

"Free" education is partly a problem due to how the "freeness" perverts incentives. Another reason is that the government monopoly takes a jackhammer to the quality of education.

[wufwugy]

All you have to do is incentivize the attending of the schools, that’s it.

I'll add that we already have this. Incentivizing education is not a bad thing. It's actually a very good thing. The problem is that the incentive is to enroll in a pretty monopolized system. It's so unfair for so many people.