great dude ….i think no body write about it. i want to say that education never ruining your life rather then it makes life good.

1) While the Industrial Revolution certainly had an impact on the move to public education, the public education system as we know it was NOT designed primarily as a tool of corporatism. Rather, it was explicitly designed as a collectivist tool of the state. The goal was collectivism with a view to the easy management (i.e., manipulation) of “the masses.” This, in my opinion, is more damning than a corporatist aim.

2) By removing children from their homes, where they would dwell in a naturally defined heterogeneous age-group setting, public school systems place children in age-based peer-groups that tends to build a collectivist mentality by encouraging them to go-along to get-along. The weak become the oppressed and the physically strong (or strong-willed) rise to dominate (illicitly, if not explicitly). “Wisdom” no comes from only two sources: the state-supplied instructor and the will of the majority. There are no “elders” in this community.

3) What education occurs is directed at mediocrity, not excellence. Excellence is reserved for the elite that are able to opt-out of public education and take another route to ascendancy .

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My particular complaints at the moment are around the overall design of the system and how it devalues place relationships. I'm not sure we're going to soon get past the 'college degree required' phenomenon when it comes to employers/employees.

My preference would be to create a world where people are taught, and practice, Effectuation (see my recent post on it). Effectuators create their own universes and simply get things done, and then no one questions their credentials.

I'd also submit that learning is absolutely essential, and we need to create environments where people are enabled to continuously learn. But, as you point out, our current system only intersects with learning some of the time.

A mind that has been set forth to pursue authentic intellectual inquiry and use it to shape the world around them is a powerful force. We need a lot more of them.

Your advice back then highlights a problem we still have today. I don't really believe that I learned anything in college that makes me a better employee than I was before. But the system of higher education has a monopoly that is supported by parents and employers (large and small). Education is promoted as a means to an end – the end being a better opportunity for financial security – with little value placed on creative or intellectual growth. For most people that so-very-expensive piece of paper also known as a college degree is necessary just to get an interview. It's a cyclical problem. Employers need a way to select applicants without having to speak with each one, and they use success in college and graduate programs as a filter without much regard for whether the applicants retained anything they learned in those programs. Most parents just want their kids to go to a reputable college and get through in hopes that it will help them land an interview after graduation. Colleges aren't going to change their ways until employers and society start valuing something beyond the ink on that piece of paper.

The result is a manufacturing mindset applied to secondary and post secondary education. The resulting forced expectation has squeezed the creativity and inspiration from education…replacing it with standard, productized students who know how to execute the minimum acceptable procedures of a certain discipline. This is most rampant and disturbing in engineering and science education.