2nd bold: That's the key factor here. The Fortune 500 CEO need only but a lowly Business degree (joking) which I'm sure we can all agree is easier to accomplish than earning one in microbiology. It's these other factors that make the CEO's job potenially more difficult than the microbiologists. Don't get me wrong, I don't think that difficulty is completely related to the amount of stress it puts on the worker. So many things factor in here, and are based on opinion, that I would think it immeasurable.

1st bold: I don't think it's as simple as a hierarchical list based on difficulty of obtaining a college degree.

edit: I think I can see a slight difference in how we are approaching this question: You see it as 'Which job is harder?'. I see it as 'Which job is harder on you?'. Personally, I see no difference between the two but I can certainly understand where you're coming from.

None of that actually proves me wrong....

Well yeah humankind wouldn't be distinct, but society would have big problems. Countries would break down to small village-communities, which no safety that they are attacked by other communities? Why? Who overviews, that they all have the same basic culture of right and wrong? Need an example?

-Even if you put religion in this it wouldn't work, how many religious groups are there just in the USA which share one god, but interprete his so called words totally different?

-Germany in the ancient world: all thought they were Germans in basic, but without something to unite them (i.e. Romans) they had a fairly good time attacking each other

Next thing about home-schooling is that you normally lack of social skills. I can't her talk for myself, because home-schooling is a actually an offence in Germany, but I got an American friend, who got homeschooled, and actually thinks that this is the case for her. And she had to learn it the hard way. If you want to prevent that you put them together with other kids and then you got schools again. Problem then: the teachers are amateurs and if this would happen around the world probably 80% of the people would be uneducated from a nowadays stand point. But there would be teachers.

Next problem diversity: You would be just schooled by one person or a group which are close associates. School teachers have totally different opinions, etc. That's how you learn to anticipate reason and thinking. You just don't learn the way to create some things.

and no apprenticeship is NOT a school system.

It's actually one of the oldest. A kid goes to a master to learn some special knowledge. How can that not be a school system?

If your opinion is "if no one ever taught anyone anything ever" then yeah nobody would learn shit.

It's not like i'm saying that stuff is more effective or as effective as teaching.  It's just Vlads assumption and statement that if school teachers disapeered suddenly all knowledge would disapear and everyone would have to constantly reinvent everything.

That's stupid.  Incredibly stupid.

So how the hell would you preserve all the technical invention. One example from history is the knowledge drop between the ancient world and the middle ages. Why was that so? Because the whole sholarsystem in europe was destroyed except for monasteries. What are monasteries except for religion? Schools! SO everybody would have like 10-20 books, but you can't really put that knowledge together anymore.

Off course not all knowledge disappears, but I doubt much more then just basic technology would survive. Why is that so? Co operation! Thats where we are back at social skills. Anyways the country this happens in would be down and a target for everyone else who didn't chose to do that, so it won't survive long enough to see all knowledge go. But if this would happen around the world I'll take a bet within a century about 60-90% of all knowledge would be disappeared and just a fairy tale in people's  minds.

Example?

-Who long did it take in Europe to have the ability to build big buildings like the colosseum again? I would say about 1000 years at least.

That would be like me saying the world couldn't exist without garbage men.  Because if garbage men didn't exist our garbage would pile up out of control and we'd all die of mega plagues.

Actually this was exactly what happened in the middle ages. Well of course it well never happen that everybody dies.

Teaching is an inherently favorable proffession.  People WANT to be teachers.  Lots of them.   So there is no reason to pay as much for less favorable jobs.

The question about this is: Can you keep the balance between getting all the best heads to teach and pass their knowledge on or do you get none. Remember: If you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

None of that is even remotley true. If we got rid of public schooling the country would break into small city states? What?

Your whole arguement is ridiculious.

Aha. You the whole argument is ridiculous, because you don't believe my worst case scenario? So I stop bringing up my arguments for a moment and I simply ask you:

Name one country in the world which has as the political form a democracy and doesn't have a public school system.

Then please name another country which is not in war and doesn't have a public school system

That'll be interesting

Aha. You think the whole argument is ridiculous, because you don't believe my worst case scenario? So I stop bringing up my arguments for a moment and I simply ask you:

Name one country in the world which has as the political form a democracy and doesn't have a public school system.

Then please name another country which is not in war and doesn't have a public school system

And by they way: Where did I write about public schools anyway in my text??? You were talking about all the teachers gone, I answered that.

That'll be interesting

That's like saying "Name a democracy that doesn't have cars."

i can't name one that currently exists.  Yet a democracy could certaintly exist without cars.

Also not in war?  What does that have to do with anything?

Books =/= teachers.

Teachers = People who teach as a proffession.

If there were no teachers, things such as apprenticeship would pop up again, homeschooling, self learning etc.

So in otherwords you think it's harder being a factory worker then say an accountant or teacher.

Hope you don't matter that I brought your two statements back together in one. As I edited my text in between.

About the war thing: just a gimmick, because some african so called democracies don't have even a basic one, but they are all in civil war.

About the car thing, well democracies existed without technology as we have it now, but they never endured very long without professional teachers. You admit that it is inefficient. I add here, that this is mainly because of the lose of knowledge and if they don't professional again in some time most of the knowledge will be gone.

I feel like this is going nowhere, so let's say what is really your point and then it makes more sense

My point is modern society doesn't work without professional teachers.

Hope you don't matter that I brought your two statements back together in one. As I edited my text in between.

About the war thing: just a gimmick, because some african so called democracies don't have even a basic one, but they are all in civil war.

About the car thing, well democracies existed without technology as we have it now, but they never endured very long without professional teachers. You admit that it is inefficient. I add here, that this is mainly because of the lose of knowledge and if they don't professional again in some time most of the knowledge will be gone.

I feel like this is going nowhere, so let's say what is really your point and then it makes more sense

My point is modern society doesn't work without professional teachers.

edit: to your edit : Yes, I've learned a lot from books, but without somebody learning me how to learn and actually use a book, I would've probably just get half of the information out of it. Have you ever read highly scientific books? Good luck if nobody could tell you specific words etc.

garbage men: some would do it, many won't