Imagine coming out of 17 years of schooling with no basic blue collar skills, taking anti-depressants and ADHD meds, needing instructions to do absolutely anything, no confidence or initiative, having political opinions more developed than any productive skill but still requires a “safe space” because you’re mentally incapable of defending it, & despite the degree that academia was SO supportive about, the only job you can get is serving coffee…

And then being mad at “the economy,” instead of an education system that just took 17 years of your life and threw it in the trash.

This is the state of a shockingly large part of our population.

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All by design

I often wonder how full grown adults can proclaim "I am not a math person" like how many math teachers over how many years failed to get the basics across? A dozen people? 13 years? They **all** couldn't get the lesson across?

There is no way that happens by accident; modern society relies on this kind of ignorance

What is wrong with ADHD meds? For some people its basically is important as eye-glasses. A friend of mine couldn’t keep a job… despite being MENSA member and excellent programmer, he was fired again and again. Then he found out he got ADHD, started medicating and his life turned around.

Yes the world know 😄

But please don't stop those funny clips asking Americans on the streets basic knowlage questions.

The result of education should be to know *how* to learn/and *what* to learn, not to have received an education or to 'sound' educated. Most people leave school thinking falsely they are either smart or stupid, where the truth in both cases is they have been inoculated against learning.

Most education is free, we just haven’t figured that out yet.

💯. The good news is that once they figure out they’ve been snookered, everything they need to learn is available for free.

Ending the education department was absolutely the right move.

You’ve nailed a real issue: an education system that prioritizes compliance over competence, theory over practical skills, and ideological conformity over critical thinking. The result? A generation that’s academically credentialed but functionally unprepared for real life.

The real tragedy isn’t just the economic struggle it’s the loss of self-reliance, problem-solving, and resilience. The system isn’t designed to create independent thinkers; it’s designed to create dependent workers. The sooner people realize this, the sooner they can take back control of their own education and skill development.

Make homeschooling great again.

"Peaceful protest" as a projection of their own internal dumpster fire.

Illustration of said projection.