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TinyViolins · 31-35, M
Not necessarily. The educational system, at least in the US, but most likely in other nations, is really just a factory that produces workers. It uses a cookie-cutter approach to enforce the idea that everybody should be learning at the same pace and have the same core competencies. At the end of the day, you can be educated and still not know anything practical.
Full disclosure, I have two bachelors degrees, but they haven't really made a tangible difference in my life. I can't fix anything in my house, I have no friends, my mental health is a wreck, and if society collapsed, I'd be screwed. Not that education doesn't have some very specific benefits, especially when focused in certain fields, but for the most part, it just establishes broad concepts and expects you to figure out the rest later on.
In developing countries, education can go a long way to giving people opportunities, but in developed ones, it can often be a waste.
Full disclosure, I have two bachelors degrees, but they haven't really made a tangible difference in my life. I can't fix anything in my house, I have no friends, my mental health is a wreck, and if society collapsed, I'd be screwed. Not that education doesn't have some very specific benefits, especially when focused in certain fields, but for the most part, it just establishes broad concepts and expects you to figure out the rest later on.
In developing countries, education can go a long way to giving people opportunities, but in developed ones, it can often be a waste.