The schooling system as we know it was certainly set up to create better workers. Back when the industrial era started it wasn't a bad thing, because this was the first time that the working and poor classes were actually taught anything like literacy and maths to elevate themselves at all. However, over the years things have changed and while many may still be happy to be basic level workers, more people are aspiring to be more than that and have the capability to be more than that if they could only have a bit more freedom to choose the direction of their education.
Welcome to Hive, by the way. I've just been reading about your move to Seoul. What a time to be setting up a new life in a new country! You are braver than I. I'm currently locked in Australia, but in many ways it's less stressful than trying to navigate all the medical and tracing demands of relocating. Glad my relocation was 13 years ago. Even our visit back to the UK 9 years ago had more security hoops to jump through than our initial move. I dread to think what it must be like now.
PS: I recommend adding source links for the images you use, so that you're not accused of plagiarising.
I'll add in the picture attribution, the license says it's not required (only appreciated), but I was just thinking of how people might think I was going against copyrights.
I've been a long time proponent of homeschooling, but am only recently learning that even the very basic setup of the school system is a flawed design. Like you said, I don't know how they would have reconciled the necessity of education to run and develop sophisticated technologies on a large scale, as now even basic literacy is needed to obtain food. It's funny because I sometimes feel illiterate being in a foreign country, but I do have the translate app I use a lot.
Yeh, just easier to cover yourself. The assumption for some is that if you don't credit them, then you're claiming that they're your own.
It's a completely different form of writing to ours as well! Do you know a bit of Korean? It must be quite daunting. Is it a permanent move for you?
It's been about six months here and I'm learning how to read Hangul, their alphabet. Almost all the signs are also in English, and nearly everyone wears shirts with English on them. The first time I went into E-mart, their equivalent of Walmart, it felt really weird to see so much English, like they had it all just for me. I haven't seen a foreigner outside of my family in that store in the whole time I've been here.
I only know hello, yes, no, and thank you basically. Every word is extremely phoenitic, which is why you'll notice a lot of words are really long. The proper form of "hello" is 5 syllables.