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[[Category:Everyday Life]]
In the 20th century, education was designed to prepare people for life
in a Second Wave civilization. Children learned the basic skills needed to
function on a factory floor: literacy, arithmetic, punctuality, discipline, and
teamwork. They also learned the dominant ideology of their nation, to
which they would be expected to conform. Schools were themselves organized
like assembly-line factories, accepting small children as raw material
and delivering finished citizen-laborers. Learning was a job, and for many
children it was a tedious and difficult job.

Today, education is far more critical than it was in 2000. Children must
learn much more complex technical skills. Meanwhile, instead of absorbing
a single ideology, they must learn to recognize and process the rich stew of
memes they will be exposed to as adults. The load on the educational system
would be intolerable if Industrial Era methods were still in use. Instead,
modern education relies on making the learning process as efficient and
unconscious as possible. Children no longer feel obligated to learn. Instead,
they learn as naturally as they breathe or play, their natural curiosity
engaged by computerized toys and entertainment media.

Adults also have access to unconscious training, usually delivered
through similar entertainment media. For example, someone wishing to
study history can order a variety of relevant InVids or slinkies, allowing him
to experience period dramas rich in authentic detail.

The concept of unconscious education is regarded with suspicion by
those who fear that it will expose them (or their children) to undesirable
memes. This phenomenon dates back to the 20th century, when some parents
“home-schooled” their children or sent them to specialized private
schools in order to protect them from unwanted memes. There is some reason
for concern – for example, there have been scandals involving kindercomp
manufacturers who programmed their products with specific
ideological biases. Parents who worry about this usually monitor their children’s
learning activities closely, or buy material for them from education
vendors specializing in certain memetic constructs.

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