Why do governments still support school today??

[Xguy]

See
http://www.school-survival.net/articles ... t_Fine.php
for more information.

According to the article in the website above, the idea of compulsory education today actually started in Prussia rather than America. The 'education' there was designed to unite the Prussians for another war. Then patriotic Americans went to Prussia and used that idea in America.

Implicitly (not from that website), other countries took that idea and used that for our 'education' system today.

So, why do developed country governments still enforce compulsory education today, even when government officials don't demand patriotism? I'll leave that for you to answer.

[Xguy]

Sorry for not giving enough information.

Anyway, why do developed country governments still enforce compulsory education today, even if government officials don't demand an abundance of resources, a good education or a strong economy?

[Loxor]

Tradition.

Also, people don't think there are alternatives.

[Absnt]

And because it's easier to just leave the current system active.

[Ceiling Cat]

Because it creates obedient workers.

[LOON_ATTIC]

Ceiling Cat Wrote:Because it creates obedient workers.

Beat me to it

[HeartofShadows]

Ceiling cat beat us to it.

Thats why big business are such big supporters of public schools.

School kills the indepedence(Which may enable more businesses or more competition) and lays out a blue print that if they listen and follow orders that they will be happy.

[Xguy]

Ceiling Cat Wrote:Because it creates obedient workers.

That indirectly relates to what I said (good point though) because obedient workers boost the economy and increases the resources of the country the worker is in. Also, obedient workers are docile enough to give their conscious support to the country they live in.

[David Cooper]

I think it's just lack of imagination. The people who go into education as a job are the ones who were teacher pleasers; people who have never had a creative thought in their head. They were never able to imagine that they could have been doing something else with their time instead of sitting in a room for half the day learning at 1% the rate they could if they were offered real education instead.

Every time some eight-year-old passes an exam for people twice as old, he gets labelled as a child genius and no one ever stops to ask how he acquired his knowledge. The reality is that gifted children of that sort are just normal children who are given the opportunity to learn using fully efficient methods. Most children could do the same.

[HeartofShadows]

David Cooper Wrote:I think it's just lack of imagination. The people who go into education as a job are the ones who were teacher pleasers; people who have never had a creative thought in their head. They were never able to imagine that they could have been doing something else with their time instead of sitting in a room for half the day learning at 1% the rate they could if they were offered real education instead.

Every time some eight-year-old passes an exam for people twice as old, he gets labelled as a child genius and no one ever stops to ask how he acquired his knowledge. The reality is that gifted children of that sort are just normal children who are given the opportunity to learn using fully efficient methods. Most children could do the same.

Amen to this Mr Cooper.

Sometimes I like to think what potential kids and eventually leading up to general humanity would have if they were allowed freedom in their education and actually treated like people with their own minds instead of people who shouldn't have any responsibility because of their age.

[Prince Rilian]

The schools aren't supported by the government.
The schools are a branch of the government.
Why doesn't the government prune itself?
Well, because. Viruses live to spread.