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Originally Posted by hkalchemy  There are certainly some compelling reasons not to go to college. I work in education but as the years go by I am more and more inclined to think that what we are doing in our schools and colleges is really outdated and irrelevant. We need a change of paradigm - we need to teach what really matters and what students actually need to thrive in the real world instead of the same old stuff we were teaching a hundred years ago. Maybe it was relevant then, but not any more.
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This is one of the reasons I stopped training to become a secondary ed teacher. The schools teach you that the purpose of education is to create effective citizens of a democracy, but that is such a joke. Middle and high school classes are not relevant, and they don't even give the kids a good understanding of the content, even if it's not relevant. I really wish there would be more classes on government, politics, and how to actually be an effective citizen of a democracy, as well as classes on money management, which even kids in college are in dire need of learning.
I almost wish it was like the olden days when you learned something by apprenticeship. You would learn the trade extremely thoroughly, become an expert, and then you could offer value to the world and make a living. This Renaissance style of learning we have in school
is out of date, and I think kids should be able to pick specific tracks of interest so they can focus and actually become experts on something, instead of a "well-rounded" jack-of-no-trades.