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by pixl97 1092 days ago
If we keep jacking up the price of education to insanity levels while demanding ever more education you should expect the average person to embrace fascism. Fascism won't solve the problem, but fascist leaders will tell the people there are simple solutions to the intractable issues they've been presented with. Then all the violence and war that Fascism brings will occur.

I'd rather work towards a more stable future myself, but politically I have no idea how we can get there.

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Why is university the only place people get educated? I finished a high school that incorporated a few years of the “higher” uni education into our curriculum - like maths and physics and such.

Honestly it was quite nice as by that point most high schoolers are bored out of their minds anyway, sliding down into destructive patterns, and this kept things challenging and interesting.

And also gave me the foundation to more easily learn the uni stuff that I needed on my own.

With the current availability of anything on youtube and such it should be trivial or at least a lot cheaper to learn anything you have the desire to learn. I think schools should be there to instill into us that desire.

Not saying unis are a bad idea - plenty of good things about them too, just I don’t think in our world they are a particular requirement - just make the schools system a few notches more demanding and we should be golden.

Accreditation.

Simply put I could know everything, the problem is you now have to develop your own series of tests to ensure that I do and that I'm just not lying that I do.

Making schools more demanding on a single path likely doesn't solve this either. You just stress out people that are not going to be academically great no how hard they try.

> If we keep jacking up the price of education to insanity levels while demanding ever more education

Education does not mean you have to sit in some school. There are many ways to educate yourself.