I know a lot of people are gonna take offense to this but, I think the real reason for the educational crisis is that most adults think of education as a substitute for moral consciousness, technical skills, and social skills.
Teachers are plagued by this sentiment from the academic culture that blue collar skills are detrimental to children.
Childhood individuality is treated as narcissism
Worldliness in youth is seen as a disease.
Idealism and naivete are rewarded as proper youth behavior.
Academics want to mandate excessive abstractional subjects (philosophy, psychology,etc) as means to generate"critical thinking."
Speaking of which, that's another thing.
"Critical thinking" is a term thrown around to justify peddling useless subjects.
Wanna know what makes critical thinking?
Knowing how to fix your own car.
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