Rdrcr
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I would like to recommend ‘Apocalypse Never’ by Michael Schellenberger…definitely worth a read.Well, that's a good question asking, "how really intelligent people fall for that crap". I wondered that myself at one time.
But having lived in two worlds, I have to correct something: It's not intelligent vs not intelligent. Education is less like something inborn and more like something you either do or don't do - like buying a tractor, or becoming a pro at playing one particular sport.
I know this because I was raised in a an old fashioned area in Arkansas as a worker & handyman mechanic - and did that for 25 years as an adult - and didn't finish HS until my mid 40s. College came later - when we could afford it. So for a ong time I saw the world mostly in terms of rich people & especially the government trying to either take advantage or fool me or forcing me to do things I didn't want to do.
The difference in how I look at the world now 25 years after college is different. It was a slow change, much like the change that happens when we go from being a baby to an adult. Somehow, while we are growing up from being a child everything that used to be done for us becomes something that we now have to do for ourself. Education is like that.
Now I don't feel like the world is forcing or fooling me. I still know it will take advantage if it can. But the feeling I have toward the world is more like looking over my pasture and figuring out what changes it needs to make it work better.
So I got lucky & accidently got to see both sides. Hope this helps.
rScotty
Education should never end, regardless of age.
Mike