• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The point of school is to churn out workers. The government didn’t throw money into education because it felt generous.

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      4 months ago

      In a democracy, you should have good schools for the simple reason as to have a people that’s actually able to carry a democracy.

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        4 months ago

        They’re worth learning to understand the universe and the history of how that knowledge was derived and/or discovered.

        If it helps you get a job, all the better, but they’re worth learning for their own sake.