School's purpose should be humanistic rather than economic, and the people who are not academically talented need a welfare state rather than a promise that school will lift them.

Added to korrents 8 Sept 2025 · How quotes work · Something wrong? Tell us

Related korrents

Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.

• Putting the children most likely to succeed into one school is segregation, not educational excellence. FDFreddie deBoer24 Mar 2026similar wording
• Universal basic income is at most a small part of the answer to AI-driven job loss. DADario Amodei1 Oct 2024similar wording
• Governments should pay a lot for children and let the people who respond reveal which cultural compromises are acceptable, rather than deciding in advance which value to give up. RHRobin Hanson3 Oct 2023similar wording
• The educational crisis narrative is downstream of the labour market: we destroyed the jobs that did not need a degree and then ordered schools to make everybody degree-ready. FDFreddie deBoer12 Mar 2026similar wording
• It is better to be an optimist who works hard than a pessimist who writes about why things will not work, because no amount of such essays moves society forward. SASam Altman4 Aug 2026similar wording

See this on the map →