| Kasz216 said: Are you serious? When someone wanted to become a blacksmith in the middle ages did they have to reinvent blacksmithing? If teaching wasn't a profession then people would go back to the apprentice system. It would be annoying and it would be less efficent but society would survive and entire disciplines wouldn't just up and disapear. That's just stupid. Also... you know. Books exist and such. I mean people are homeschooled you know. They turn out just fine when it comes to learning. |
Ouch. So much things that are wrong in here.
1. if you lived in the middle ages you had no choice to become a blacksmith, you would've just become what your father was in about 95% of all the cases.
2. Even then you HAD to go for a long, long apprenticeship to actually be able and allowed to do your job. You learned that while being taught by a master, overlooked by a guild. Which actually is a kind of school system.
3. The apprenticeship is still used in Germany. You normally do it after you finished school and you work fulltime with an exception of like 1 week per month, where you go to a public " job" school on your specific occupational field where it's made sure, that you really get the knowledge. This actually replaces lots of jobs for which you go to college to in english speaking countries. University here is just for the sciences. This system is actually really efficent and got Germany not only some off the highest quality, but also one of the top productivity rate worldwide. But without public teachers ensuring this it wouldn't work.
4. Homeschooling: Once again, if your parents are religious extremists, I doubt that you reach the same level of education in general knowledge. On the other hand that's a very bad example, because you can't compare really committed parents to regular ones. But: what did your parents learn, when they went to school? Knowledge of the world DOUBLES in 10 years. My parents i.e. can't even speak english. So how can they teach me that (Not even talking about French and Latin which I can speak/understand as well)? Teachers usually have a higher education standard than the average home schooling parent and they are paid to keep them self educated.
