Knowledge for what?

There seems to be a symbiotic relationship between low efficiency in industry and poor quality of education at different levels. Part of the loss of efficiency in industry can be attributed to failures in school preparation of the population. In a recent document, the Institute for Mobility and Social Development (IMDS) once again warned that, in the second year of elementary school, one in two public school students in Brazil is not properly literate. About this fact, the CEO of IMDS, Paulo Tafner, wrote: “Learning to read means learning to decode. When a child does not master this skill, his school trajectory is compromised. The country loses talent and the economy pays the bill with low productivity.”