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CMV: Education should create intellectuals not employees

The role of an education system should not be to create skilled employable individuals rather it should strive to create polymath intellectuals. Although they play a crucial role in society, over history those who made a lasting difference were not the skilled employable workers, but the intellectuals. If we could create a society in which every individual was a Descartes, Gauss, or Kant, what justification would we have for not doing so? Even if such a feat would be impossible, would it not be noble to strive for it?
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The need for intellectuals is far too low. For every conceptual piece of thought an intellectual could conceivably bring to the table, he needs multiple teams of people who are up to task for realizing his conventions. It would be a logistical impossibility to have all intellectuals and no employees.

Elon Musk is an intellectual, but without every engineer, marketing major, accountant and floor manager in his factories his ideas are useless.

Ideas are cheap. Practical outcomes are what we need and we need a work force to create them. That means that we need a streamlined mechanism to produce a work force, and education serves that purpose.

Since we need far fewer intellectuals than we do employees, the focus of education should be to create as many employees as possible, so that the intellectuals are not subdued with an inability to act. Furthermore, as a more simplified argument not everyone has a want or need to be an intellectual, but they do desire employment.