Skoolin, Why bother with it in future or common magic RPGs ?? Options

[Synner667]

Hi,

After reading an article about braindance and prison, someone mentioned using the long period of VR to program a criminal with socially acceptable skills and/or behaviour.

So I was thinking...
...If you have a high technology society [such as any that have skill chips] or one with common magic, why would there still be schools ??

After all, as soon as you get a job, they'll pay not much money and give you a skillchip, or imbue you with a spell, that enables you to do whatever job they hire you for to a satisfactory degree.

When you consider the trade off of spending years in school and then college and then even further education to the cost and effort of skill chip handling systems, why would anyone do it ??

And for those in "fiscally reduced areas", why educate them if they're never going to get a job that requires taught skills...
...Reality being what it is, kids from slums almost never get jobs in nice areas.

Thoughts ???