Re: Blame Game on Baby Boomers.
Originally Posted by
twizzle
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The point of education isn't just to train people for jobs. It's also to raise the knowledge, understanding and intellectual levels of the population and to aspire to more and better things.
This Brexiter style anti intellectualism reminds me so much of Brave New World.
You seem to want to put young people into apprenticeships, to make sure they keep to their position in life, keep working to support their "betters" and don't look to the stars and get above themselves.
It's not unemployed graduates and student debt that are the burden, it's the top heavy amount of old people, many of whom had the chance to study non-vocational topics at university without paying a penny. Why should todays young people have more limitations?
Why would using pen and paper and no calculators make any difference? The world has moved on from the 1950s and we need to make sure our children are up to date with technology. That's all our children, not just those from middle class families who can afford private tuition and know how to push their children into grammar schools.
"What we should be doing is finding a way for society to reflect what boomers had for those who are generation X and millennials."
I agree with this bit and the best way to do this is to make well off Boomers less of a burden by means testing the state pension and changes in the way they are taxed. This would leave more cash in the kitty to improve things for the working generation.
What a load of claptrap, are you still stuck in the Victorian era where you assume that the working class are here to have our noses ground into the dirt and to touch our forelocks to some who are regarded to have a higher standing in society?
I had an apprenticeship to enable me to become an electrician, not to keep `my position in life` but to support and better myself which the apprenticeship allowed me to do. It allowed me to earn a living and then start my own successful business to support my family.
About time you stopped reading the Socialist Worker and stepped out from behind your narrow bigoted view and own sense of victimhood.
It's no sin to be born in the gutter but it is a terrible sin wanting to remain there