Yes with a literacy rate of like 10%
The difference between now and back then is that we have modern technology like computers and phones. I would say that schools were more important back then, but now a 10 minute YouTube video teaches you more than a year of school.
By very recently you mean 1,600 years ago? I think they probably realized that humanity genuinely cannot function without an educated generation;
removing it completely would literally result in humanity going backwards
We do not need schools to education us:
Your native language - you would have learned it on your own, anyway. Most of what you learn in school has to do with the analysis of sentences, etc. Things that are not essential for daily life. Reading, writing and speaking would be learned naturally.
English language (if you live in a non-English speaking country) - this could be the one thing to justify school, since it is actually useful. But again, it mostly teaches things that don't have to do much with reading, writing or speaking. We don't need to know all the stuff about sentence structure to use the language properly (I surely don't). Either way, you could give the kid a video game (or, heck, send him to a chatroom that uses English) for a month and he'd learn more than in a year of school.
Other foreign languages - let's be honest, they won't be used and will be forgotten. Just a way to fill up the school schedule.
Biology, geography, history - these could be interesting subjects if someone likes them. But they are not essential for daily life, and therefore should not be required.
Physical education - kids would do their own activity if you just left them the alone. And it would be more fun for them, too, since it could include things like climbing trees.
Mathematics - most of it can be done by computers. And again, most of the more advanced maths will be forgotten since it is not that useful in daily life. The basics could be taught by parents.
Chemistry, physics - useless, hard to understand, and will be forgotten. Again, if an adult likes them or needs them for their jobs (this will be very rare), they can learn them at that point. But there is no need to shove them onto kids.
Information technology - sure, civilization depends on it now. That's why everyone has a PC or a smartphone in their home and will learn to use them even before going to school. Old people do just fine in daily lives while only knowing how to visit websites and perhaps send emails. However, this subject could, in fact, be a useful skill and not just knowledge - if you taught the kids to make websites and repair their computers (something that is a lot easier to learn with someone else). But, that usually isn't done and would not require more than 1 year of school, anyway. Even if you assume this is useful, it's certainly not something everyone needs, and shouldn't be forced.
without it, society would never evolve and stand still in terms of technological advancements for the rest of history.
School only teaches us what's already discovered by someone else. School is not going to tell you how to make Quantum Computers or how to travel faster than light. Just think, the people that discovered electricity wasn't taught about electricity in school.
I think your outlook on education really substantiates your claim about you being dumb... this is genuinely probably one of the most braindead posts I have ever seen on this forum and I have sure seen a few
Which therefore proves that the education system is flawed.
*he says, writing a sentence that he couldn't have without school*
You write this post knowing for well that school taught you how to write, read, count
I used to be way, way, way behind on language arts back in elementary school. When I started playing Minecraft multiplayer and used chat. I actually learned a lot. So therefore, school didn't teach me how to write a sentence, but actually, Minecraft did.
most likely taught you how to type and use computers in the first place.
Typing and using basic end user functionality of computers is common sense. For typing, you just press a key and the letter just shows up. For computers, press a button and the screen comes on, you would learn how to use the mouse on your own.
For the advanced, power-user functionality, just look it up or use YouTube.
Yes, the education system does certainly have its faults but if it were removed entirely as said in posts above the literacy rate would nosedive and so would the average IQ, which obviously isn't very good for a country in the Information Age...
Your native language - you would have learned it on your own, anyway. Most of what you learn in school has to do with the analysis of sentences, etc. Things that are not essential for daily life. Reading, writing and speaking would be learned naturally.
English language (if you live in a non-English speaking country) - this could be the one thing to justify school, since it is actually useful. But again, it mostly teaches things that don't have to do much with reading, writing or speaking. We don't need to know all the stuff about sentence structure to use the language properly (I surely don't). Either way, you could give the kid a video game (or, heck, send him to a chatroom that uses English) for a month and he'd learn more than in a year of school.
Other foreign languages - let's be honest, they won't be used and will be forgotten. Just a way to fill up the school schedule.
Biology, geography, history - these could be interesting subjects if someone likes them. But they are not essential for daily life, and therefore should not be required.
Physical education - kids would do their own activity if you just left them the alone. And it would be more fun for them, too, since it could include things like climbing trees.
Mathematics - most of it can be done by computers. And again, most of the more advanced maths will be forgotten since it is not that useful in daily life. The basics could be taught by parents.
Chemistry, physics - useless, hard to understand, and will be forgotten. Again, if an adult likes them or needs them for their jobs (this will be very rare), they can learn them at that point. But there is no need to shove them onto kids.
Information technology - sure, civilization depends on it now. That's why everyone has a PC or a smartphone in their home and will learn to use them even before going to school. Old people do just fine in daily lives while only knowing how to visit websites and perhaps send emails. However, this subject could, in fact, be a useful skill and not just knowledge - if you taught the kids to make websites and repair their computers (something that is a lot easier to learn with someone else). But, that usually isn't done and would not require more than 1 year of school, anyway. Even if you assume this is useful, it's certainly not something everyone needs, and shouldn't be forced.
Please stop blaming your sub-par intelligence on the education system. Not paying attention in school isn't the school's fault, it's yours.
School teaches us by shoving stuff into the human brain. This is now how people actually learn. The human brain is not just a bag that you can put stuff in. It learns by focus and interaction. It is also a biological organ that requires energy which is constantly being depleted. It has a need for rest and play. This means that, if someone is bored, tired or hates the subject, they will not learn very well at that point. So you can't just throw the kitchen sink at someone and expect it to stick. Which is exactly what the schooling system tries to do. Bury students with nonsense until nothing registers, and then bury them further with homework. In this case - even if you find something useful and / or interesting in there - it will get ignored by the already overloaded brain.
If is my fault for not paying attention, then I challenge you to draw the entire world map, including the names of every country, without looking it up on the internet. Go on, you have seen it bunch of times in school, so this should be easy for you.
