The Atlantic: The College-Admissions Merit Myth
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He unintentionally wrote one of the best articles justifying the abolition of the American education system. The thrust is that it is a bloated mess of competing interest groups; none of which are concerned with providing an education necessary to fill the essential roles of a functioning civilization. Socrates was sentenced to death for less.
I now realize that socrates was the villain in that story, the polity was correct in killing him, and the only good thing he did was voluntarily drink the hemlock without making a big deal about it.
He didn't support his wife and children, he agitated for no reason other than to show off how smart he was, and he promoted his stupid ideas to impressionable young adults. He was basically ancient greek karl marx.
Sounds more like Ben Shapiro, and not in a good way. Steven Crowder did it better, and gave us the Change My Mind meme.
Anyway, is all that true about Socrates not supporting his wife and kids?