There are so many things wrong with the the education system, it's impossible to claim any one flaw is responsible, but the more flaws we point out, the more we undermine public faith in the system.
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There are so many things wrong with the the education system, it's impossible to claim any one flaw is responsible, but the more flaws we point out, the more we undermine public faith in the system.
Well, I'd like to think that the more we point at the flaws the better we can address them and eventually fix them. Some of the issues here are "convenient secrets" because many "benefit" from a system without standards (and I'm not talking about testing, which can be an even more problematic thing).
In our case the system is visibly flawed and people keep sending their kids to schools almost by inertia; there are no choices when you have a national curriculum and the crisis is so severe it affects all demographic groups.
In our particular case it is a political problem. It is convenient to keep the system flawed.
The root problem is the state monopoly. Everything else is an entirely predictable symptom rooted in the incentives of such a system. The purpose of the school system is to promote the legitimacy of the government above all, not to teach people to be critical thinkers who pursue their interests and hone their unique individual talents. You can't reform a system designed by industrialists and imperialists 200 years ago to churn out loyal workers and soldiers.
You are right. Ironically, in systems like ours, ruled by a regime that defines itself as anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist, far from reversing the indoctrinating effect of the empires, they managed to just put the machinery at their service. They just changed one form of domination for another.
Authoritarians are essentially all the same beneath the different rhetorical facades they erect.