re: #247 Romantic Heretic

In my opinion, the purpose of modern education is not to create human beings suitable for citizenship but rather human resources suitable for employment.

It always has been. Only rich families could afford to have their children taught functionally-useless subjects like the Classics, Latin, Greek etc. since they’d never be so poor as to have to work for a living. Real human beings needed to learn to read, write and count to be able to work in industry, in shops, in trade, bookkeeping and the like.