But but but...
Education gives benefits to society that are beyond what is needed for the economy, the job market and the needs of employers.

Would you want to live in a country where nobody understood, say, history? Or rather, where the only historians were either self-taught amateurs or corporate stooges with an agenda?

What about a country where the only people who studied politics were politicians? Or where the works of Shakespeare were only understood at the level of a layman audience? What if the route to understanding the philosophy of science became blocked to those who would want to practice science?

Why would you want to bring all education and every individual's drive for self improvement to the beck and call of corporate interests? Maybe you'd be happy living in a cultural backwater, knowing that only the powerful, wealthy and privileged had access to knowledge that isn't directly beneficial to economic growth. I wouldn't.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 12:50, 1 reply)

Balls.
It sounded like a decent enough plan. Then I read your counter-argument, and now I realise that you are both right.

Bugger. I just don't know what it right any more.
(dchurch bah, Fri 23 Sep 2011, 15:34, closed)