Education Distrust

[Quintessence]

There's less interest in school because of increasing generational wealth gaps means a lot of gen z and elder gen alpha don't care about school. Why care when the continuously ignored housing and health and climate crisis keeps getting worse. When the apathy of their elders means most of them won't have happy basic needs lives no matter how well they do? Why trust that education is going to do you any good in that situation? The disenfranchisement is not just a problem with people who don't want to learn, but with people who think that there's no point in learning.

When I started hearing this sort of thing directly from the students I work with, it was hard not to get depressed.

They actually don't see the point in learning.

Beyond getting a job, that is.

Worse, the university itself is starting to pander to this because they have to. Chronic underfunding means they have to market themselves to what young people demand, and that's seeing university not as a place to develop in to a better, more educated, well-rounded citizen but as yet another cog in the capitalist work-machine. And while it's still true that higher education improve socioeconomic mobility, chronic problems like you mention here are left under-addressed and the balance of that equation keeps tipping against education.

 

[1137]

Depends more on the teacher/professor. For vaccine hesitancy I think it used to be more about religion than education, and now it's more about a (well placed) distrust of the government than education. There are definitely big problems though: indoctrination of kids into physicalism, politicizing early education, abuse, etc and so on.

 

[Valjean]

SalixIncendium said:
I think it's the result of a system that sacrifices knowledge to being politically correct.

Science follows the evidence, no matter where it leads and how unpopular it's findings might be.
Where are you getting this politically correct nonsense?

 

[Valjean]

Probably because it’s illegal to not get your child vaccinated.

Wouldn't that infuriate them even more, as a clear example of state tyranny?

 

[SalixIncendium]

Science follows the evidence, no matter where it leads and how unpopular it's findings might be.
Where are you getting this politically correct nonsense?

If you've already written it off as nonsense, I won't waste my time composing an explanation.

 

[icehorse]

Do you trust the education system, or the educated? Why or why not?

Well in the US, it's been overrun by profiteers. Teachers are underpaid, learning materials are marginal, curriculum are politicized, and pedagogy is decades behind.

 

[syo]

Why do so many people distrust education, and/or the educated?

Because it's disgusting. Greek education sucks. American sucks. German sucks. Swedish sucks. Etc.