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Old 06-27-2022, 11:37 AM   #483
CliffFletcher
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And sorry, I like the way our education system operates, the last thing I want to tell poor Jonny is "sorry, I know you wanted to study philosophy but instead you have to be a welder. Deal with it because that is what society needs." Sounds pretty communist to me.

Maybe we should focus on the employers and making those jobs more desirable, not by restricting people from taking an education they want.
As long as post-secondary education is heavily subsidized with public funding, state planners have a stake in ensuring its aims and outputs align with our economic needs. We’ve spent too long pretending most young Canadians should and can get university degrees in whatever they choose and graduate into generic white-collar jobs. Pretending everyone can be an office worker actually harms our egalitarian aims. Countries with more egalitarian job markets and less inequality (Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, etc) take a firm hand in steering state education to meet economic needs, including providing clear career paths and robust training for jobs in the trades.
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