Sushan wrote: ↑October 28th, 2022, 5:53 amOh sorry, I believe we are talking about two different things. I am talking about what dictates success after schooling is completed. The highest echelons may go to fancy schools, get fancy educations and fancy degrees but their uncharacteristically good outcomes have more to do with connections to the powerful (typically through their parents) than the school, education or degree.LuckyR wrote: ↑October 27th, 2022, 9:24 pmI am sorry but I did not get you. Did you relate to choosing private education over the state supported education, or did you relate to the expected outcome of the people who choose private education over the state supported education?Sushan wrote: ↑October 27th, 2022, 7:14 pmActually when studied, its neither (the education nor the certificate), its the class and wealth of the family (parents).LuckyR wrote: ↑October 10th, 2022, 1:51 amI agree that those who go for private education only covers a minority out of the voting population. But I am not sure whether those who go for private education are actually the ones who are willing to get educated and know the true value of education. Today, what matters is not the education, but the certificate. So most people (whether in private sector or government sector) target only for the qualification that will get them a decent job, rather than proper education that will make them better.
Fair questions, here's the answers. Private education always caters to small numbers of the upper classes, ie those who actually "need" the specific value of education the least, therefore it makes the least impact on the society. Public education is consumed by far greater total numbers quantitatively and cannot refuse the unwilling, the underprepared and the disadvantaged (like private schools do) qualitatively. Thus high quality public education has a far greater potential to improve understanding in the population.
Of course some are uneducable, everyone knows that. If you think about it though, that group is heavily weighted towards nonvoters, so it's not really statistically important for the topic of this thread.
If it is the latter, I know people of wealthy families who obtained MBBS but never worked as a doctor. They just needed the title. Since they already have enough money, what they sought was respect and social acceptance. So they chose an educational certificate in a respectable field.