Comment by taylodl
9 days ago
That is an excellent response. If you're afraid educating your citizens will cause them to realize their country is crap, then your country is crap.
9 days ago
That is an excellent response. If you're afraid educating your citizens will cause them to realize their country is crap, then your country is crap.
This reminds me of an apocryphal business story: a bunch of managers were sitting around discussing a request to give more training to employees.
One manager asked, “What if we train them and they leave!?”
To which a more senior manager quipped, “What if we don’t train them and they stay?”
And how do you make your country not crap? Well, it starts with educating people. But when you educate them, they leave. You've effectively been forced to subsidise the skilled workforce of another country and your own country is worse than it was to begin with. This is a stupid petty response that doesn't really make any sense and is also deeply and unnecessarily offensive to large parts of the world.
Some stay. And if the younger ones coming up find a lot of peers are also educated, they'll stay too, to work with them.
Yes, you lose some. But not all. And that's how you start.
Your arguments seem to rest on highly questionable assumptions like 'when you educate them, they leave'.
Care to post a source suggesting that education in isolation leads to people leaving in majority numbers?
Most countries that are the recipients of skilled migrants won't allow entrance without a university degree. Education is a precondition for this migration. That's why it's called "brain drain". If people aren't educated, it doesn't matter if they leave or not.
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Why stop funding at the university level? Why not also defund high school and middle school as well? After all, by the end of the 5th grade you should be able to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Anything beyond that you can fund yourself, right?
>Why stop funding at the university level?
Among many other reasons:
Subsidizing demand increases prices. When you subsidize university education, you increase the price of it. The metoric rise in inflation-adjusted cost of university education since the 70's or so is strong evidence of this.
If someone wants to major in feminist dance therapy, that should be on their own dime. Using my tax money to fund it is immoral.
>Why not also defund high school and middle school as well? After all, by the end of the 5th grade you should be able to read, write, and do simple arithmetic. Anything beyond that you can fund yourself, right?
I'm actually not entirely unsympathetic to drastically cutting down how much mandatory education we have for kids. There is very little (if any) correlation between the funding amount and actual results. See Abbott districts in Bew Jersey for a stark example of this.
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