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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phoenix" data-source="post: 668483" data-attributes="member: 7685">Damn straight. One of the problems is that people are taking their advice from the same source as their education. It's a conflict of interest. If you ask your mechanic 'should the clutch be replaced', he's more than likely going to say yes, even if the clutch has another 5 years on it.I get why - the teacher is in a position of intellectual authority, and you're following and accepting everything he says, it only seems natural to accept his advice too, even if that advice is in his interest but not yours. People are quick to say 'it's the students fault', but this isn't reasonable. Young people are naive and inexperienced. We never say its a baby's fault when it does something foolish - for we can't expect the same personal responsibility from a clueless youth as we can a world-weary adult. And like in this situation - the true responsibility lies on the shoulders of parents.Parents are by and large, doing a shit, lazy job, in a massive part of the population. Their idea of checking up on their child's progress is 'did he get an A on his report card?'. They don't treat school as a service for their children, they treat it as a way to abdicate responsibility for the rearing of their children. It doesn't matter what the teachers are teaching their children and telling them to do - as long as the child is in school they pat themselves on the back and consider their job done. As long as they put away money for little Johnny's college fund, and he 'goes to college', they can delude themselves "I've fulfilled my responsibilities as a parent".I'm of the opinion that families should be utilizing the services of career advisers much more. Agencies completely independent of the school and university system should be advising young people what to do, if parents feel unqualified to do it themselves, rather than the schools.</blockquote>

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