What If? Right after 1945 EVERYBODY was given an unbreakable gadget meant to give “Free Education”?

CarlManvers2019

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To expound on the title, let’s just say that ROB gives everybody a personal indestructible & always around-machine that can and does teach them any of the following: languages/reading/writing, chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, economics(but with extra tips of psychology like The Personal MBI)etc

But nothing about history, religion and philosophy

How does the world eventually adapt to something that eradicates the need for schooling wherein indoctrination regardless of the political spectrum can occur and also be rather flawed and incomplete in delivering actual info?

With this increase in education, how many mistakes would be decreased or found to be impractical?
 
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It likely doesn't really change anything, and, might even make things worse.

You haven't eliminated the need for school, firstly, as the study of civics and history are core parts of education that really cannot be ignored. You're also ignoring literature and other large swaths of important topics. Also lacking any practical knowledge. Let me be blunt about this: civics are more important to everyday life than chemistry. History is more important to everyday life than physics. Literature is more important to everyday life than calculus. About the ONLY actual important topic being taught by your machines is perhaps "economics", but which economics? There's considerable conflict and economics, despite its pretenses to being a "hard science" is really just a form of philosophy combined with sociology and math. Given you're putting the date at 1945, I presume it will be teaching the then dominate school of economics: Keynesian, which, well, was pretty much followed by the book from 1945 to the 1970s and directly led to a massive economic crisis that Keynesian economics LITERALLY said could not happen, but it did anyway, and was not corrected until the Monist School of Economics from Chicago became dominate in the 1980s.

Culture is also likely to stagnate quite a bit without the teaching of literature, people's writing will generally degrade as teaching writing without teaching literature results in plain, boring writing.

Why is all this? Despite what so many folks might feel, humans are inherently creatures of stories. Culture is built through the stories we tell each other and our children. History is the story we tell of our past. When you eliminate all stories from education, as you're doing here, you destroy shared culture. Further, by eliminating history, you also eliminate important cautionary stories. The saying "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it" does not come from nowhere, after all, rather, it is an observation firmly founded in observations of the past.

Oh, you've also likely made communism MORE likely to be adopted by many people. Without the historical perspective on their atrocities and without the education on the human condition provided by religion and philosophy, communism sounds really good and scientific.

Oh, also, without schools you atomize communities fairly badly, as schools often served as communal hubs for children and colleges have long provided critical networking and contacts for people beyond their communities.

Overall, I think this ends up with people having a greater knowledge of the sciences, while having lesser knowledge of their culture, community, and humanity. This goes nowhere good in the long run.
 
Is the information just whatever humans think are correct on the subject in 1945? Or is it a basic-level primer from an omniscient or future perspective?

There is a LOT that can get political with any of those options.

Yes. It will even explain why Communism or highly centralized government or power interfering in the economy is a BAD idea without explicitly saying it.

And give info on how to better use resources and design a bunch of future tech like mini nuclear power plants
 
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Why is all this? Despite what so many folks might feel, humans are inherently creatures of stories. Culture is built through the stories we tell each other and our children. History is the story we tell of our past. When you eliminate all stories from education, as you're doing here, you destroy shared culture. Further, by eliminating history, you also eliminate important cautionary stories. The saying "Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it" does not come from nowhere, after all, rather, it is an observation firmly founded in observations of the past.

Oh, you've also likely made communism MORE likely to be adopted by many people. Without the historical perspective on their atrocities and without the education on the human condition provided by religion and philosophy, communism sounds really good and scientific.

What if history and sociology(not the horrible mutant of today)were blended in with economics and other sciences to make a new subject?



And it pretty much outright says how much of a failure Communism will be

Whilst providing scarily accurate and “HOW THE FUCK DID IT KNOW!?” info on stuff that people tried to hide or edit out of history or occurred long ago and far away

Okay, in hindsight, I think Stalin might end up executing people looking up the Holodomor and its effects too much
 
Actually, how would a built in “Starship Troopers-esque” philosophy and ethics lesson result in things if it goes

“Man has no moral instinct. They gain morality through sweat and experience. Sure they may have shaky loyalty to their small group or friends, but that’s just bias and can be abandoned on convenience by those without it” or something to that matter

Along with “You can’t have rights without responsibilities”

Admittedly this could be twisted by Communists to their favor
 
I think without the pedagogical and social elements of education, people would be horribly dysfunctional.
 
I think without the pedagogical and social elements of education, people would be horribly dysfunctional.

You won’t be dealing with Teachers trying to turn people into Communists

Also, I sorta modified it to include history and combine with other objects for “Psychohistory”
 
You won’t be dealing with Teachers trying to turn people into Communists

Also, I sorta modified it to include history and combine with other objects for “Psychohistory”

You also won’t have the millions of teachers who go to work every day and teach character, responsibility, self-respect, honour, and discipline to people.
 
You also won’t have the millions of teachers who go to work every day and teach character, responsibility, self-respect, honour, and discipline to people.

Didn’t learn that from school, they were mostly there to teach me stuff like math and english

Varying degrees of success
 

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