Hey, thanks for responding.
So, as for school improving cognition, I don't think science supports it -
https://twitter.com/DegenRolf/status/1065298637561974786I agree completely with the second paragraph, no disagreement there. I would be lying if I said I hadn’t developed any integrity through VCE. Kinda questionable though, of all places, learning morals from school books arbitrarily chosen, but I cant really talk here.
So called modern day "education“, though imo, is the biggest obstacle for students attaining intellectual independence and autonomy, let alone creativity. I would gladly spend my time developing myself intellectually, but so much of my time is drained in school and doing useless homework and worrying about grades and worrying about the future, stressing out. Is this really what education is?, it's pathetic. Education shouldn’t make us feel like this. In high school there is no intellectual exploration, or genuine creation, just mindless conformation to a bunch of brain numbing and draining material, and if you're very lucky, something mildly stimulating.
This “education” that I have undergone really isn't something that I am grateful for. Sure, people in the third world would kill for this, but why? To dedicate their hours and years to useless military styled training, depriving them of their intellectual potential?. What are they going to do with this education?, tell me, in what way can they possibly support their country with a good western "education"?. Personally, I come from a third world country, one plagued with many problems, and I truly see no way I can help my country with this “education”. I would gladly help my country and try to solve them, but this system of education is not conducive of such a pursuit. I urge you to tell me why those would want to chain themselves to this system of education?.
Education is useless, there’s no use for it, though if you look at it from an elitist perspective its a different story. In fact, sometimes, “education” slips in some slight fabrications and misinformations through textbooks that students absorb acquiescently. Have we learned to challenge the information that enters our heads? That is the most important skill a student can learn, to know what's in their heads, not mindlessly and gluttonously consume volumes of shit for a grade, yet we are not taught such a skill, school doesn’t develop this, in fact it does the exact opposite: train us to be conformist for a damn letter. Sorry for going off topic here, but it's a really important point for all students to be considering and actively thinking about, this is how propaganda is spread, and through history, education has been used for this purpose. We need to be critical thinkers, VCE doesn't train us to be such thinkers, it trains us to be conformists. Why do you think Hitler could muster up a whole generation of genocidal Germans, or Mussolini a whole nation of fascists?. It all starts from the classroom.
At the end of the day, most are going to go through this intellectual deprivation to make it to the next step, not for genuine intellectual nourishment or development. Then after this VCE, most will make it into uni, graduate with a piece of paper only to then try to desperately rent themselves to low-mid level corporations. This pretty much seems to me the reality of the majority, I mean just look.
I like your name btw.