Education should be an end in itself.

I know a lot of people with degrees who don't know shit about anything other than what their degree is in. Which points us to two things: 1) there needs to be an integration of study and real life; 2) there needs to be an eradication of academic snobbery, ie., the elevation of the academic above the 'ordinary worker'.

Neither of those things are possible without wholesale changes to the society that accomodates such educational dysfunction in the first place.

The education system under capitalism is of course not removed from gross inequalities. That's obvious when you look at how some subjects are elevated above others, for the arbitrary reason of 'relevance to labour market'. But in the first place, you have to ask who has access to an education and how, and what that education actually constitutes.

There are various academic circles that are politically and morally repugnant, but have the official endorsement from the state.

The way capitalism is going, in an X number of years, there won't be any experts in any fields of interest or study, there'll just be a lot of people who know a little bit about everything, who know how to seem to know enough to get by on a conversational level.

"In the battle of ideas, weak ideas must be attacked." - Guy Debord