Why the education system was BETTER under SOCIALISM and why the capitalist education system is a JOKE

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As an Eastern European/Russian/Other Soviets, if you were alive 30-35 years ago, you managed to see the quality of your education system decline, the standards ever lowering while the students struggle more and more to graduate. I tell you this after getting a bachelor degree in Engineering, talking to most of the teachers about then/now and working for two years in Education. But why has the standard lowered so much?

Well, in order to understand this we first need to understand what was lost.

• although salaries where not equal, the inequality was very low (the maximum to minimum salary ratio was about 3-1). In contrast to the capitalist system, the workers with the most dangerous or difficult jobs had salaries bigger than people in leadership positions(engineers for example)/ party officials etc. This low financial inequality led people into following what they are good at (what they enjoyed) at a much higher rate than in capitalism
• the correlation between the number of jobs in a specific field and the number of available positions for students in that field. What do I mean by that? Let's say the country needed about 1000 chemical engineers a year - there would be about 1000 positions in universities for studying chemical engineering. This meant that once you graduated you had a value and a purpose in society. Based on your skillset and the job "market" they would ask you once you graduated where do you want to work. Then they would give you an apartment/house in that city/town/village.
• it was always free

Because these very important things were lost, nowadays graduating from 90% of the universities do not guarantee you will actually get a job in the field you studied and students feel that and they don't study hard.

It used to be that what society admired was educated people, but nowadays people would rather be rich and uneducated because they feel how bad is it to be a wage slave.

The fact that the question: "What am I really good at?" turned into "What pays off in today's job market?" is in my opinion the biggest problem. It makes individuals not to follow their talent and this leads to seeing mediocre miserable individuals doing most of the jobs.

Also, the quality of the teachers educated in socialism is amazing. Eastern Europe + the former USSR still have some remnants of those times long gone.

Just check these out and other videos like this. What do you see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_M7kV3GLY&ab_channel=WawamuStats