What is school for?

The NY Times has a new series called "What is school for?" That's the headline of one of the opinion pieces which I'll post in the comments.

I thought it was either satire or proof of how much a waste of time and money this professor's university education was. To have such underdeveloped critical thinking skills and lacking the ability to effectively diagnose the issues, tells me a failure of education.

However, education imo should be about skills. Primarily the skill of critical thinking and analysis. That isn't something that you forgot and something the author wasn't taught.

Schools that do that are succeeding at educating the next generation effectively. Schools that don't are failing.

Submitted September 01, 2022 at 12:22PM by Montaigne314 https://ift.tt/lrFLV7U