The education debate is just medieval, theological nonsense. Recently, I’ve found it hard to completely ignore.

So I’ll explain one more time, then shut up about it for a bit…
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I work in an industry that hires some of the very best grads. They may have 1st class degrees in art history, chemistry… but what we need them to be able to do is read, write, talk, simple sums - & learn.

My daughter can do all those to the required standard. She is 12.
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Day-to-day our grads are attending meetings, writing emails, creating powerpoint presentations, figuring stuff out - things that for the most part they are learning to do for the first time (as is true of most jobs)
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Some of the grads probably feel quite attached to their degree subjects & regret not pursuing them -others only ever saw them as a ticket to a well-paid job. It’s not a good system in either case. Frankly, it just spoils a decade of their lives & their attitude to learning
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Yes, there are vocational degrees where ppl use what they learn - ’ law’ or ‘medicine’ -even there much time is spent learning stuff they'll never use (prior to & during degree).

We tortured them, stressed them, lied to them - all in order to perpetuate a vast cult.
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And I have no objection to ppl learning stuff they won’t use in future-quite the contrary: just let them learn stuff they're interested in -dance moves, photography, skateboarding, dolphin behaviour.

& maybe some of them will be interested in what the grown-ups are doing.
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