That's a great prompt.

The first and most obvious thing is that parents need to be aware of what is being imparted to their kids in school. If they find those lessons to be unacceptable, for whatever reasons, then they need to find a different arrangement. If those lessons are merely incomplete, then parents need to take the time to make up the difference.

As to what kinds of changes need to be made, obviously I have many in mind: see, #496016 for some of them.

Since you have to be able to support yourself before you can support others, that's probably the place to start. Kids should be learning skills that will be directly useful in their lives, regardless of career path: personal finance, nutrition, cooking, etc. A bonus to this, that I'm discovering currently, is that little kids are eager to help out around the house, so they're motivated to learn these things. That's something that can be fostered at school by giving kids actual responsibilities, which I understand is done in Japan (perhaps @cryotosensei can elaborate) and is being done in some American charter schools.

Then it's a matter of communicating wiser priorities. Personal relationships matter more to people than careers and yet the later is heavily prioritized over the former. Beyond a roughly middle class income, average happiness stops increasing with wealth, so we should be encouraging people to try to make a living doing things they find fulfilling.

What seems so nefarious to me is that it no longer seems kids are just being trained to be good workers but also good sycophants as well.

It seems very akin to the Maoist cultural revolution where everything except the state approved doctrine was removed from schools.

So I suppose critical thinking skills is one of the best attributes people can bestow upon their kids to offset the statist indoctrination.

Off the top of my head:

And it may seem odd, in the context of your question, that I emphasize work. However, I don't really believe that public schooling is designed to develop good workers, who focus on career. Most of it is useless, a waste of time. It's evolved as the least-common-denominator path to employing a bunch of school teachers and other employees. The focus is not on the kids. There's so much make-work useless feel-good bureaucracy in public education.

Wow deep question. 🧐

I guess try to help kids find their hobbies, the things they love to do and encourage them. Creativity is really important I feel.

And be the best person you can be as children naturally imitate the adults.

The culture in the US is mostly work oriented, and people refuse to put it down. The first lesson would have to be then, ignore pretty much everyone and everything else.

I've been thinking about that a lot recently and it's a question I've been discussing with my wife. I sincerely think that the educational system is rubbish, a business and that it is very overrated, and it is something that depends a lot on the city in the world where you are, it is not the same education in Ecuador as in Denmark, to mention an example. Now I consider that we should all be educated, as they did with "Don Diego de la Vega" the "Zorro." Character from a television series that I watched a lot when I was still a child. A Man Awakened and Educated in social manners, trained in production and management of wealth, instructed in arts such as drawing and painting, dance, music and martial arts for self-defense, knowledgeable in politics but not an adept or supporter of any political party, educated in diverse literature and knowledgeable about other cultures, capable of using tools and manufacturing with his own hands, skilled in various sports, both physical and mental agility, and capable of working the land with basic gardening to manage a small garden, and also knowledgeable about how to raise farm animals for family consumption, among other things. Thanks to those skills he saw how there were injustices and corruption and decided to fight against it with a costume and a pseudonym "El Zorro" outside of the vigilante part, although it can be translated as a way of helping others, of which there are multiple ways of carry out. I think that's how they should educate all of us. And it is the model that we could say I try to replicate for my children. And for that to be possible, the only option is to take the education of our children in our hands, enough of leaving that to the state. We just have to look around us, do royalty send their children to the schools or universities that ordinary people go to? I don't believe it. Thank you for reading. Stay in Pagüer 💪🤠⚡🍊

Idk about your premise. Kids don't really spend most of their time in the first 25 years preparing for a career.

School is a lot of wasting time for waiting for kids to grow up. You can tell this is true because how some kids can catch up the learnings of a year over the summer if they were missing due to illness or student exchange or vacation etc.

Kids also spend a lot of time playing, watching tv, doing sports, learning instruments. My school education was also a lot of useless arts and culture and theatre and learning useless stuff by hearth. You could say that's part of preparing for the softskills part of a career - but at least you have to admit it's debatable here.

My plan is to educate my daughter at home. I want her to learn basic life skills, cooking, managing her money, sexual education, driving a car, knowing what to do if she has an accident, first aid and knowing the importance of taking care of her family. mind and body. Raising children is not that simple, sometimes we want to do things and they turn out differently, personally I always talk to my daughter, we talk about the importance of her voice when it comes to giving her opinion, for example today when I dropped her off at school ( I still haven't been able to get her out of there for various reasons) and one of her teachers comes up to me and says: "Madam, your daughter spoke to me and told me that she doesn't like me helping her carry her suitcase and that she doesn't like me helping her either." give hugs, I tell you this because I don't want you to think that I treat your daughter with indifference", I told her that there was no problem. My daughter had previously told me that she didn't like it when her teacher hugged her and didn't let her carry her things on her own, so I told her "use your voice, and with great respect tell her that you don't like being hugged when you don't." you want and that he doesn't do it anymore and that you like to carry your suitcase alone"; It seems important to me that children know how to speak and defend themselves against adults, many are afraid to say what they think or want for fear that they will be scolded and that is very marked here in Latin America where there is adultcentrism. It is important that they learn self-defense as well, creating your own garden, even if it is small; We live in a society where everything is automatic and we are increasingly useless and that became more than clear in the pandemic. It is very great to have 3 university degrees but they are of no use to you if you do not know how to cook, defend yourself, lack emotional intelligence, empathy, respect and problem-solving skills. I hope I am explaining myself well. I am not taking education for granted and I am not saying that it is of no use, having knowledge of history, culture, mathematics, etc. is extremely important, having a balance of both skills in my opinion would make you a useful person to society and personally.

I think the foundation needs to be laid at home, ideally, and this should be primarily the role of parents.

I'm reading (actually listening to) a book that deals with the question of raising children, Peaceful Parenting, by philosopher Stefan Molyneux, which is about extending the NAP to the relationship between adults and children, i.e. raising kids without violence (physical and verbal) and punishments. I rate the author very highly, and would recommend the book without hesitation.

This is difficult to answer, but I think that good people are raised from childhood and parents have a lot to do with this, I think I would start with childhood teaching them the value of empathy and teaching good values, sharing, respect, having empathy with others, helping selflessly...

Schools are designed to teach compliance and condition the child to believe and behave in certain ways.

If I were writing this question I'd say "good human, instead of a good citizen". I don't think the work is the problem. Work towards a goal is good. Being lazy both mentally and physically is a huge problem these days. I don't think children are taught to work and not taught to relax. Leisure for no reason is no virtue. What are you resting from?

There are many important things to do. Many problems to solve. Many things we each need. When we do work that matters, and there is a lot of that work to do we can enjoy our rest.