(why I went into teaching)
was incredibly important in saving, maintaining, and bettering the world, and still do today and in the future.
If you read the draft document for K to 6 in Alberta, you’d have good reason that education is in a very precarious state when government fools like LaGrange or Kenney try to control how kids are brought up to be good, little, dumb-ass entrepreneurial ignoramuses like them.
World-wide stupidity and ignorance are increasing as evidenced by anti-science, anti-fact, anti-authority attitudes and hoi-polloi choices.
This is the kind of thing that leads to irrational belief in conspiracy theories, Trump-style dictators, racism, violence against non-Caucasians and others who disagree with one, GOP-style voting and rights suppression, insurrection, treason, anti-masking, and killing in the streets.
Education was the glue that once held Western civilization together, but now we see it coming undone with increased defunding of education (notably in higher education–“can’t have too many autonomous, independent-minded individuals in society not voting UCP or GOP).
Education, like life, is about possibilities and offering myriad possibilities to young people and young adults. The betrayal of this promise is fodder for tyrants and autocrats, be they Putin, Trump, or Kenney.
No, education is the most important thing in life once basic security (health, food, home, family) has been addressed. It is the true major portal to lifelong opportunities and significant human growth on all levels.