Sociology 2140 Lecture Notes - Underemployment, Credentialism And Educational Inflation, Brian Ray
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Carry the culture: education in medieval europe. Only people with leisure times were able to go to school: century ago. Public schools started to teach the 3 rs to masses. Compulsory education came into place and it was modeled on the factory system and now parents cant teach the kids everything they need to know. This happened when factories emerged and urbanization started to happen. Men were going to work at factories; women were at home: today education is dominant institution. Increased: education level in na, high school graduation kids don"t drop out anymore, post secondary/professional enrolment, costs of education. Kids are being medicated regularly for the medical fashion. Kids are getting distracted by all the different forms of info being thrown at them its basically a fictitious epidemic: the arts are victims of this mentality. A lot of these drugs are like a anaesthetic. Education is modeled on the interests of the industrialization.
