We, as a modern society, have lost something along the way to a higher education: moral and civil upbringing. The universities — and schools, in general — no longer teach young people values: they teach data that is, hopefully, going to be applied at a future position in a company.

Maybe it's parents' job to build their children moral foundation upon which they will stand as responsible adults. Still, children spend half a day — as if at a job already — at an educational facility; more so if it's a boarding school. If the parents only get to see their kids coming tired after a day's work or on weekends, when the parents themselves need to rest, how much upbringing is actually going to commence?

Now, you've heard me before: I'm not a parent. I don't really know how these things go. They didn't in my family. I am, however, studying to be a teacher, and now the two aspects of mine, both regarding children, become concerned with what the future holds. How much am I supposed to give my students in education beyond that of pure scientific data? How much can I?

The fact that such a... "debate", barely even... takes place tells me that we've missed an opportunity with these kids. We've missed an opportunity to talk about it, to have them express themselves in an environment where an educated person could help them figure out what is what. I don't think it's an issue of "being radical left", as if it's a genetic condition. I think it's an issue of "I don't understand where I am in the world, what I stand for and what am I". It's an issue of a growing person building up their personality and trying things out to see what sticks.

Radicalization feels good because of the feeling of self-righteousness it brings. I think there ought to be something in the education system to help prevent going radical through educating about the world at large. I've had an idea for a course for high-school level about being human: what do relationships constitute, how does one find something they like, how to operate in an adult world etc. Things that are supposed to get taught by the real life that so many people unfortunately miss due to the way the modern societal infrastructure has grown. We're more isolated and lonely than ever, and I wonder how many young adults entering university this year even know how to do their taxes. There ought to be something we can do to accommodate for it.