This is a guest post written by the owner of Exit Rights.
Philosophy professors ask this question: If you could have a job where you were ill-paid but saw your work contributing value to the world, or a job where you were paid well but all your work was burned at the end of each day, which would you choose? The students discuss the different kinds of reward, apply the ideas to their own lives, and gain a greater understanding of why others might choose differently.
High school is the worst of both worlds. The “work” is completely unpaid and completely useless to the world. Those “rebellious” teens are a pretty compliant bunch, by and large, and so most of them will do as they’re told … but some of them itch.