(October 23, 2021 at 7:35 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: A typical product of the current American education system and culture in which it exists, IMO, largely disdain much of what our culture and time can offer of the first, deride the second as geeky, and discourage the third as uncool and not trendy, if not downright stupid fir not taking the easy path.
It's not just the USA.
From my experience as a canadian, I can say that the goal of education is viewed as something that should get you a diploma, so that you can get a good job + a big paycheck.
For example, one of my hobbies is chemistry. I have been asked a bunch of times, why I do it, “Can you sell it?”, “How much did it cost you?”, “Why did you make chemical X?”.
No, in amateur chemistry, we don’t make some chemical because we need the chemical. Sometimes, the goal is not to make some “product”.
Some people regard it as a waste of time.
Perhaps people from Plato’s time period regarded the greek philosophers as time wasters.
What do such people do with their free time? Why would you not do something that makes you think or learn?
Is it because of capitalism? Do such people regard such activities as work and therefore, you must get payed and if you do not get payed, then you must sit on your ass and do nothing?
