So why does the education system teach our children what to think rather than how to think for themselves?

@JovialPlutonian

Of sure, I will read it tomorrow.

What you're calling the healthcare industry are basically sponsors. They don't do the research. Academics do. They are capable of controlling the market to make profits over past medications before releasing new ones. And they are capable of influencing our training because we're obliged to attend seminars on medications and procedures that might not be all they claim it to be. But ultimately it is our responsibility to do research.

They don't own a cure of all illnesses, reality isn't that simple. Is it corrupted? Yes. Does it work the way you describe? No.

what would happen if there was a cure for all illnesses? I'd still have my job. Not all medical practice is about prescriptions and if I was in it strictly for the money, I'd try being a truck driver. They make more within the first seven years, have less debts and don't lose all their hair trying too keep up with the science of it and the demands.

@Miram love is the cure but they don't talk much about that

@Miram any physical issue requires a spiritual solution not man made pills acting to do the job your body was designed to do. So they make ppl dependent on medicine rather than showing them they don't need it. Don't get me wrong I have more respect for psychology over psychiatry but these are ppl with no personal experience claiming they can somehow empathise with patients that have conditions they've never had before. Psychiatrists give pills for chemical imbalance, did it ever occur to you that this is merely the symptom and not the cause. Again I respect your pureness of heart to heal others but how they educate you I couldn't support.

@SheikYerbouti agreed, they only teach you what they want you to know.

@CountScrofula most that you know of, many are self taught without the need for academic approval.

@JovialPlutonian Well sure. I work at a university and don't have a degree and my career is going just fine. I'm mostly self-educated after high school, but a lot of that comes from hanging out with highly educated people.

Your implication is that education is without value or that education reduces your ability to think freely which is just not the case. The most radical ideas out there tend to come from universities and the more education someone has the less conventional their worldview.

This varies by academic discipline of course. I don't find that most business profs have particularly unique ideas, but talk to a philosopher and see how "normal" they are.

@CountScrofula no I'm saying the education system represses it's students. Sure it teaches you something but not all.

@SW-User and who kept them stupid? Education need not cost a thing.

@RenaissanceMan well they wouldn't want their students to think independently.

@JovialPlutonian I agree.