formal education feels like it was fully co-opted by “the market”
If you want to join “the market” (have a job and get paid for it), you need formal education
To get formal education, you need money
To get money, you need to join “the market” or have someone who’s “in” to pay for you
As for “getting smarter”, that’s different from formal education
Brazil’s top universities, the ones everybody wants to join, publish research and look good on your resume, are the public universities. They’re entirely free, and if you can prove you don’t have sufficient income, most will also provide somewhere to live (shared, but still) and free meals.
In other words, high quality education doesn’t need to depend on your income. Protest against that, vote against that.
Technically true, but as many students find out, having classes’ times all over the place each semester means you’ll have a hard time finding any jobs in the meantime, which will more or less force them to live off savings or family help, especially if the course has mandatory books that you cannot find a pirate copy somewhere. Also, the student residences get full super quick. Not to mention that every public medicine course in the public unis only has like 2-3 students that actually came from the lower classes.
formal education feels like it was fully co-opted by “the market”
If you want to join “the market” (have a job and get paid for it), you need formal education
To get formal education, you need money
To get money, you need to join “the market” or have someone who’s “in” to pay for you
As for “getting smarter”, that’s different from formal education
Brazil’s top universities, the ones everybody wants to join, publish research and look good on your resume, are the public universities. They’re entirely free, and if you can prove you don’t have sufficient income, most will also provide somewhere to live (shared, but still) and free meals.
In other words, high quality education doesn’t need to depend on your income. Protest against that, vote against that.
Technically true, but as many students find out, having classes’ times all over the place each semester means you’ll have a hard time finding any jobs in the meantime, which will more or less force them to live off savings or family help, especially if the course has mandatory books that you cannot find a pirate copy somewhere. Also, the student residences get full super quick. Not to mention that every public medicine course in the public unis only has like 2-3 students that actually came from the lower classes.
Fonte: meu pai e minha irmã estudaram na UnB