>>14411977In the West it reached its peak in the mid 20th century when valuable skills and knowledge were being taught, along with teaching critical thinking.
For one brief shining moment in the history of civilization it looked like Humanity would solve all its problem and soon be colonizing the stars.
Bit of a shame that turned out to be a crock of shit. You see, the same academic attributes that encouraged a well skilled and educated population also encouraged the rise to power of secondary tier intelligences, people who had nothing meaningful to contribute but were strong enough in numbers and organization to begin taking a share of the power structure. As soon as they became entrenched the flood gates opened. They were not content with a slice of the pie, they wanted all of the pie. The first tier intelligences, always fewer in number, failed to unify to resist the threat. Perhaps they complacent, just weren't aware, or just didn't take it seriously. Anyway the secondary tier intelligences took control. They cared not so much about the nature of education for advancing the Human species but rather as a means to enforce compliance according to their political agendas. Critical thinking skills especially suffered as a result.
Ironically this progression was in perfect league with the desires of the rising monopolistic corporations, who desired compliant servants rather than independent thinkers.
Since then education has been shackled with decreasing quality. Useless degrees are more common than useful degrees. The ability to think for oneself and reach rational independent conclusions is shunned rather than lauded. Everyone has become much better educated at knowing nothing.
We may have more volume of education but that volume is of far less quality and results in far less meaningful work being achieved. In this regard your dream of education having a meaningful impact on Human evolution is sadly a pipe dream.
