why if its possible to make a good life without an education do ppl in general make a big deal over the matter

Question

i found that you can make a good life without going to college and not having to be famous, so why when the economy is dying anyway and society cant provide jobs for everybody as it is do we constantly force ppl to send there kids to school instead of just giving them a farm to work on at the age of 13. not only that most famous ppl make more money than the ppl who actually aid the modern society, i could see the reason if there were jobs and if the army didnt need ppl but you can always go to the army and the ngo from there. To me this is gonna be an ongoing problem for a long time because we cant organize the country whe nits not our top priority

Answer 1

Hrm, I almost agree, but let's try this one on for size: Those 13 year olds could be making tennis shoes and iPods and answering customer support calls and running data entry for Fortune 500 corporations and the like instead of having all of those jobs outsourced. We'll naturally have to abolish the minimum wage in order to make the on-shoring economically feasible for our corporate citizens, but it'll be well worth not sending the money to China, India, Malaysia, the like, right?

And so long as we keep spouting garbage like "Believe and Achieve!" at them, the tykes will never notice that the kids whose parents can afford to send them to school and college are the ones above the glass ceiling who are designing the products, trading the stocks and firing all of the workers who've been there too long so that a fresh batch of 13-year-olds can be hired.

Okay, that's enough sarcasm. Education -- in particular, public education -- is important because any sufficiently large society can only advance when good ideas have good visibility... and money is better at buying visibility than ideas. Thus it is important to mingle the rich kids with the smart kids (and we spend almost 12 years figuring out who the smart ones are) in the hopes that new symbiotic pairings of "smart" and "rich" will present us with upstart start-ups that change the world for the better. That's why rich old conservatives actually care about liberal public education so much -- they want to ensure that they'll be able to spot people who have good ideas that they can buy up, mass produce and make more money off of (since it almost certainly won't be the rich kids -- see Bushes and Kennedys -- having good ideas).

Answer 2

Most uneducated people are not famous and make much less money than college or even high school graduates. Even to join the army it is better to have technical training. Education does not close the door on job opportunities in any areas, it only opens new ones. Perhaps what should be changed is the cost of education and public perception towards certain jobs.

Answer 3

our society forces people to believe you need an education where i believe it is the financing companies way of guaranteeing there own wealth....having these poor kids start out in life with 20-50-75 thousand dollars in debt before they are even out of the starting gate and having no more education then the average person..until knowledge is applied in real life situations is it useless...