Here’s a shocking finding, gen Z: democracy isn’t perfect | David Mitchell
www.theguardian.com
According to a new poll, half of our 13- to 27-year-olds can’t see the point of all those time-wasting elections and parliaments. Why do they not know that authoritarianism is worse?
  • sprack@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Upvote for David Mitchell. It’s a depressing statistic though. The myth that we need a benevolent dictator needs to expire. Seems indicative of the defunding and malaise on the education systems.

    • htrayl@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      I’m curious about the difference between “13-18” and “18-27”

      In any case - I do think this type of mindset is a great argument of why functioning education system IS NOT a 15 year job program, or a fast lane to STEM.

      We absolutely need to think of education in a much more holistic view - it is just as important that people become informed citizens in society than just cogs in a machine.

      • sprack@lemmy.world
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        17 hours ago

        I agree, it would interesting to see the delineation of those age groups. There tends to be more group-think in the younger groups so I would expect more uniformity there.

        Again agree on taking a holistic view. I mourn the deprecation of humanities in education. It’s part of the holistic view when combined with history to provide the how and why and help us make more informed decisions.