🎓🍺 Philosophy Pub - what is education actually for?

When and where

Date and time

Sat, Sep 19 · 6:00 p.m.PDT — local Vancouver time

Location

Fionn MacCool's1601 Main Street, BC V6A 2W5, Vancouver, BCVancouver

About this event

Informal philosophy pub conversation - no required reading. **Short summary** Everyone says education matters. Then you ask what it is actually for and the answers start getting slippery. Is it for knowledge? A job? Citizenship? Character? Status? Freedom? Obedience? A nicer résumé? A more expensive way to become employable? This Philosophy Pub is an informal pub conversation about what education is supposed to do to a person. Not a lecture. Not a course. Not networking with better vocabulary. Just a table, a real question, and people willing to think out loud without pretending they have solved the school system between sips. The question is simple enough to enter and big enough to get uncomfortable: What is education for? **A few questions already sitting in my head** * “Is education supposed to make you employable, or make you harder to manipulate?” * “What should a person know even if it never helps them get a job?” * “Does school build character, or mostly train obedience?” * “Wh

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Free

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Vancouver Curiosity Club!

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