/pone/ - My Little Pony★

>>307464 (OP)

Good. High schools don't have enough flexibility or general utility anymore. The only subject in high school that was useful to me afterwards was math, and only as a prerequisite that seemed to be more about weeding people out than being necessary to understand my college courses. Education beyond necessities of life should be voluntary and branching, otherwise everyone wastes time on bullshit.

>>307464 (OP)

>They then apprentice themselves out to learn a lifelong trade, typically based on their cutiemarks

That's sounds fucking awesome. What the fuck are you talking about? If there's one thing wrong with the United States' education system there are many, it's that there aren't enough apprenticeships. Every fucking nigger who says, "You can't go anywhere in life if you don't go to college." must not know that being in a trade can earn you a lot of fucking cash, not to mention real-life and hands-on skills that will probably save their ass later in life if they a fucking pipe fixed. I don't need a fucking college degree to install a couple of fire alarms or put duck tape on a fucking mainline. I don't need to bury myself in debt just so I can say, "Welp, I don't know what to fucking do now, so I guess I'll fucking kill myself." So you tell me you jew-nigger cock-sucking son of a bitch, do you think earning up to 70K a year is depressing? Or is living in your mom's basements wallowing in your mounds of crusty socks your vision of paradise?

>>307464 (OP)

>Only the human world of Equestria Girls has higher education.

That is unless you happen to be a unicorn.

>>307467

>The only subject in high school that was useful to me afterwards was math, and only as a prerequisite that seemed to be more about weeding people out than being necessary to understand my college courses.

I went back to school in my late-thirties and early-forties. Talking to the freshmen and sophmores, it was incredible just how spectacularly ill-prepared they were for the subjects at the university level. It's like high school now does not teach anything except how to not fight with one another.

That's another thing. When did high school bullies stop being a thing? Kids seem to think that "bullying" means saying mean things about someone on Facebook. It's a fucking joke. None of them have ever even taken or given a beating.

>>307468

>That's sounds fucking awesome.

My ass it does. Nobody knows what they want to do with their lives when they are teenagers. How could they when they have never done anything? Education should be broad so that when a guy inevitably decides that he hates what he is doing he has the basic knowledge to begin working at something else. Being stuck doing what I thought would be fun as a teenager would be a living nightmare.

>>307470

Yeah, they hardly pretend to do anything else anymore.

>>307473

>Public education in the real world is usually shit

>So public education in Equestria is shit

This is a magical horse world where 99% of the population is generally well meaning and interested in being a better magical horse, so my guess is that they just get more done in less time in the early formative years of foals instead of dragging things out. Not hurting my point that actual horses reach maturity and peak mentally earlier than humans, and that those traits might be transferred to magical horse given some of what we've seen - though probably having a higher max educational attainment. Education in Equestria also likely has a strong family element for a number of reasons ranging from ponies not being self-absorbed shits to the absence of kikes.

>Pic related, it's familial education

>>307464 (OP)

>implying there is literally anythign wrong with an apprenticeship

Tbh I'd rather that than wasting time on an education that I'm not gonna use for my retail job at the mall. Man, if I could've been an apprentice to a carpenter or an electrician instead. Hell, higher learning should have apprenticeships too. I don't need calculus to be an ecologist. I recognize that that requires a little bit of math but just pass me off to the Biology Guild and I'll learn what I need in ten months instead of the four years at a university.

Ponies got the right idea. Yet another reason pony is the idyllic society.

>>307464 (OP)

I think the existence of cutiemarks makes mass-education useless. When a pony learns what he/she is meant to do, there really isn't any point in sitting in school for anything else.