If we reduce our education to only that which can be exchanged for money (or some money stand-in perk) we become nothing more than a cog of capitalism, no better than the latest robot. I know, I know, it's fashionable to think every skill which isn't directly marketable is seen as a "luxury" (god forbid!) In fact, we need MORE diverse education, more experience learning about and playing in the fields of "useless" disciplines. Those experiences build the competencies we need for life - no, they permit the experiences we WANT for life. History and philosophy and literature and yes statistics and economics and geography are essential. Without them we have weaker architecture for life-building in all its forms: relationships, parenting, politics, feeding ourselves, the technology of the 21st Century, aging, you name it.
If we reduce our education to only that which can be exchanged for money (or some money stand-in perk) we become nothing more than a cog of capitalism, no better than the latest robot. I know, I know, it's fashionable to think every skill which isn't directly marketable is seen as a "luxury" (god forbid!) In fact, we need MORE diverse education, more experience learning about and playing in the fields of "useless" disciplines. Those experiences build the competencies we need for life - no, they permit the experiences we WANT for life. History and philosophy and literature and yes statistics and economics and geography are essential. Without them we have weaker architecture for life-building in all its forms: relationships, parenting, politics, feeding ourselves, the technology of the 21st Century, aging, you name it.