>>Unfortunately, many things including education cannot be tailored separately for each individual. Moreover, I have some concerns about each individual ability to know exactly what he/she needs in, IOW there is some common frame (which might include zoology too:) to force people to get some level of knowledge.
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>I don't see why it can't be tailored. Think of all that wasted time spent memorizing things you'll never need again. All the money wasted on classes you don't need. You get a nice general education in grades K-12. Once you are an adult, _paying_ for the classes you take, I see no reason not to tailor it specifically to your needs.
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>You say the individual might not know what he wants? Then don't go to college right away. Or try a few classes here and there to get some ideas. But if you know what you want, why fool around. I knew I wanted to become a programmer. I had been doing it for fun for years and was ready to make a carreer out of it. But I had to go through 6 years of nonsense first. What a waste of my time, my money, taxpayers money, etc.
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>For the 25k I spent on school, they could've damn well tailored it to what I wanted to take. Other than taxes, nothing else forces me to spend money on things I hate to do. It would be like buying a fancy vacation and being told that in addition to the places you want to go, there are several others you must go to just because they're "good for you".
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>-Michelle

Probably, it's all depends on personal attitude, e.g. it seems to me as highly arguable the sentence that memorizing things you'll never need again is just waste. Ultimately, everything is waste in some sense, and isn't because of human nature, curious and unpredictable, and I wouldn't streamline it so much.