Raghu writes:
"I find this philosophy very unappealing. Even if we accept all of
Murray's premises, why not think of the college years as a form of
forced leisure? Would you rather have young people enter the labor
market at a even earlier age? For all the reasons that reduced working
hours is good, I'd argue college education is good too.."
It doesn't have to be either school or work. Here's my idea: from 15-25, you
have everyone work some and go to school some. It's good for adolescents to
work and feel
like they're participating in society. They need to learn, exercise, work, and
have time to hang out and engage in the labor that takes them out of childhood
and into adulthood, and also learn how to deal with sex.
There should a group of core classes -- numbers & letters -- and a constellation
of everything else, that they could choose based on interest. Manual stuff, bookish stuff, art stuff, ...science, computer stuff. This could continue through the college years, allowing the students to drift themselves into the kind of work they want to do. Anybody who wants to do more, would do a few years of graduate school. And that's all.
Right now we're wasting the kids' time mostly.
Joanna
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