up:: Content author:: Veronika Tait full title:: Education, Capitalism, and Superspecies url: Link
Highlights
- If we’re designing people to be good at living in the world as it exists in one moment, we’re depriving ourselves of the diversity that will allow us to have people that will be good at living in the world as it will exist in the future.
- There are jobs today in industries that didn’t exist even 5 years ago. How do you prepare a generation of students for a world that is rapidly changing?
- So why do children go to school? Is it to gain skills to make a rich CEO richer?
- Economist Joel Mokyr described the modern education system as designed to teach future factory workers to be “punctual, docile, and sober[15].
- Will we teach the working-class skills that will allow the rich to afford for their children to have designer genes of beauty and ingenuity? Will the difference in resources between the rich and poor begin to divide them, not only economically but biologically?