Comments by "alex smith" (@alexsmith-ob3lu) on "How Education Undermines Democracy" video.

  1. Meritocracy is dead across the West. You seriously believe that all these women got their cushy office jobs through merit? Governments and other large organizations subsidize women to go to school, subsidize women into the workforce, and subsidize women with handouts who make bad social mistakes (abortion, divorce courts, welfare, etc.) who pays for all this? Men who work long hours at tough jobs.
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  2. That was how my parents behaved. Arrogant and callous because they have ONE masters degree. I get it, they were “the first” to go to graduate school in my family, but none of my siblings and I went to university.
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  3. Wow, that is very fascinating! I never knew that about the West adopting a centralized exam system to higher education from Imperial China!
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  4. Your video reminded me of a common pattern of how foreigners perceive education in Canada/USA. A lot of people outside North America think that our educational system are inferior institutions that create inferior quality people who are not ready to do anything productive as adults. While that is true, I find it to be outright wrong at the same time. America itself (not counting international students and immigrants) still produces highly skilled scientists and engineers that turn out valuable R&D or startup projects that other countries like China cannot compete with. Then if you look into the community college institutes and American history (I.e.: the Dodge brothers), you find a “grey zone” where some of the best Americans combine theory & hands on ability into their profession. Too many people have forgotten what “unapologetic meritocracy” really means….
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  5.  @alejandromaldonado6159  I don’t really think a study is necessary. Just look at all the parents who force their child to do a centralized examination into college and graduate schools here in America. From the end of WW2 till recently, if you didn’t get a bachelor degree at college, you were considered a nobody by most people.
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