That is going to be wild diver dan.

diver -
The only ones who would benefit from neglecting to educate a portion of the population are certain populist politicians who would gain votes as more people would be unable to spot the flaws in their arguments.

But as far as our economy goes, mass education is more important than ever. We need to do far more to make ourselves more productive. And we need to stop pretending we can't afford it. We're a rich country, but if we stop investing in the future we'll gradually fall to third world standard.

I absolutely agree with your opinion Wolly B.

Aidan...(dear Aidan).. You are way off the mark.
Children of the modern world are self educated already. Remember, they have all the tools for this at hand, as we do.

Children are now a force to be reckoned with. What society needs to do is to capture their enthusiasm, not destroy it. The current mass education system produces zombies.
I've pointed out, the majority of children Ill fitted to continuing education, need little to no continuing education, to fill the current jobs available to them at school leaving age.

The travesty to the tax payer lies in this fact. That children need perpetual education is a fallacy and a lie fed to society, and capitalises on greed and insecurity of it's adherents to support the inconvenient truth, hidden by politicians, by pretending the advantage of stripping our children of the ability to self-survive without it!

diver, you're way off multiple marks.

Children of the modern world are not a homogenous group. And while many are self educated to some extent, there's a lot they don't know. Year sixes and sevens generally don't have all the tools we have, and there's much they don't know about how to use the ones they do have.

There is a lot more that schools could and should do to capture children's enthusiasm. But your unsupported claim that "the current mass education system produces zombies" is way off the mark, and I suspect it's based not on the current system at all, but on the system when you were at school.

And even if your dubious claim that " the majority of children Ill fitted to continuing education, need little to no continuing education, to fill the current jobs available to them at school leaving age" is true, you seem to have missed the fact that education is about preparing people for a future, not just getting them into the workforce.

The ability to self-survive is irrelevant; we should be giving everyone the means to actually thrive, and education is the biggest part of that.