Why youth view the education system as a means to an end

One thing that keeps happening when I talk to young people today is that almost none of them talk about the actual content of their education. It's a rare occasion when I find somebody who genuinely has an interest in what they're learning/pursuing. And even then, half of them just talk about the pay of their future careers and it just feels all so bleak.

So, I decided to find some root causes. I found the main proponent to be the grading system paired with social media which inevitability breeds comparisons. As a result of this, there's been a large increase in materialism over the last three decades in the US.

I go into detail more here.

Submitted January 05, 2023 at 07:42PM by Thin-Antelope9347 https://ift.tt/4BNQhw8