The Reason Education Sucks
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN links it as a pointed comedic statement of why education is seen as broken and unlikely to be fixed.
What it is
A five-minute clip of a George Carlin routine arguing that the education system is designed to produce compliant citizens rather than critical thinkers. It ties schooling to the interests of the people who own the country.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2015 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends retrogradeorbit · 2015-01 · on “The Tough Decision to Leave the Classroom”
The Reason Education Sucks: [this video] Edit: for those wanting something less cynical and more serious, I recommend some John Taylor Gatto: [LINK] [LINK]
Cites mSparks · 2016-08 · on “Why China won’t own next-generation manufacturing”
Its not a mystery at all. China has tons of free world class education based purely on academic ability and a couple of billion people educated to a world class standard. The US has virtually no education system, what does exist is expensive and not practically oriented. Basic supply and demand. US has high demand for skills and totally non competitive supply. (even in tech now, which is why they need the H1B visa thing) But dont expect it to get fixed. It's that way on purpose. [this video]
Cites mSparks · 2016-08 · on “California bans ITT tech from accepting new students”
This whole premise of this story has me wearing a tin foil hat. [tldr] [this video] Soooo many questions. so few answers. I'll start with my immediate thoughts. High dropouts are not absolutely a bad thing. In fact its pretty normal in all western schools that have zero focus on "how to learn". The "problem" is clearly earlier on in the education system, wherby students are reaching college age not knowing "how to learn", and suddenly finding its important. Next up - the cost of learning/knowledge material. I know of textbooks from the US being priced in the multi thousand dollar range (or simply not available for student purchase). "Teachers/Lecturers" aren't that important (I say that having gr
Cites WhyDoIThink · 2022-08 · on “Why is rent skyrocketing?”
This video titled "The Reason Education Sucks" from George Carlin will explain why rent is skyrocketing: [this video] Here is a quote from that video: "But there's a reason. There's a reason. There's a reason for this, there's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It's never gonna get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choic