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Most Education is Wasteful and Immoral

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SS: I make a case for drastically cutting back on education. I argue that education doesn’t achieve its desired goals. The material is irrelevant and students forget much of the material. Most information taught in schools is quickly accessible with a smartphone. Education might be warranted if it boosted cognitive ability but it appears to be increasing IQ scores rather than actual ability to think.

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A person who gains knowledge outside of formal institutions is still educated, albeit self educated.

That's not what the word education means. A person has to be teaching.

One receives education, one doesn't read it.

By the way that comment contradicts your second comment on this sub thread.

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/self–educated

By the way that comment contradicts your second comment on this sub thread.

No it doesn't.

  1. You can be educated in a school

  2. You can be educated in your home (private teacher or family teacher)

  3. You can learn by yourself by just reading book (no one educates you)

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/self–educated

Yes, dictionaries list many words people don't actually use, and that don't make sense. So?

If you look at online trends, everyone says self-taught of autodidact, not self-educated.

You are not following a definition, you are inventing a definition based on another word.

These are the definitions of the word "education" in the same dictionary you liked:

  • 1.a: the action or process of teaching someone especially in a school, college, or university

  • 1.b: the knowledge, skill, and understanding that you get from attending a school, college, or university

  • 2: a field of study that deals with the methods and problems of teaching

None of the definitions match your invented definition.

I didn’t invent it. It’s in the Britannica (and other dictionaries). Which funny enough you linked to.

You’d think the thread would have ended there.🤷‍♂️

I didn’t invent it. It’s in the Britannica (and other dictionaries).

No, it's not. Nothing here: https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/education, has your invented definition.