why bother?
Expanding everyone's horizons is all well and good if everyone can go on to lead a challenging, interesting life. However, the complex machine of society will still require the small cogs - people to clean toilets, flip burgers, etc - and expanding their horizons seems to be a uniquely horrible thing to do. Perhaps there's something comforting in stupidity - not having the mental wherewithall to imagine anything better, and being too dim to even be aware of this deficiency.

What you're proposing is roughly analogous to developing fully-functional AI, then fitting it to a Roomba - giving something an awareness of quite how poor its lot in life really is, for no discernable benefit.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 14:16, 1 reply)

Your point strikes me as generating an argument for paying loo cleaners a lot more,
rather than depriving them of an education should they want it.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 14:18, closed)

if only there was a place people could go to acquire all the erudition they'd like - a public building of some sort, which would freely lend you any book of your choice, even going to the lengths of orering them in from other such buildings upon request.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 14:25, closed)

And maybe it could be next to another building
in which are employed acknowledged experts in their field...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 15 Oct 2010, 14:54, closed)