Ah, so a 50+ years campaign? Yup, that can work if you can have a government with enough attention span.

Edit: don't get me wrong, _not_ doing that for children is evil. But, the results thus far do speak for themselves... And uncle Bob will not take being sent back to middle school all that well.

Not a 50+ years campaign, an infinitely long campaign. You know just like normal schooling is an infinitely long compaign.

Licensing people for reading a newspaper? That is insane.

I would mandate that you would have to take it until you pass (Excluding extreme cases). But of course you cannot ban people from reading something.

Honestly everything you say sounds like abusive insanity and not anywhere I'd want to live. I hope you don't make any decisions for other people in any capacity ever because you lack fundamental respect for other people's choices.

Having to pass a test so you can function in society is not taking away any choices. What choice would it take away?

The choice anyone else makes to change society to be what they want. Or would they have to lie and take your test to make changes? Only go through your change process?

You have this idea that society is a monolith you can keep people in and out of based on the results of an algorthm, and that's only true for the most authoritarian and oppressive regimes.

That's the world you're trying to create. Social Credit scores as maintained by facebook, etc.

It's truly repulsive.

What are you a talking about. A test does not impact the choice anyone has to change society how they want it to be. You are imagining things I have never even hinted at.

Almost everyone get's swimming lessons and tests. And yet, and this might really blow your mind, you can still actually go swimming without actually having had passed the test. No SWAT team will barge down your door and take you away if you go swimming.

>A test does not impact the choice

Then whats the purpose of the test? Tests are scores used to determine something. You're talking about forcing people to take a test to do what, exactly? Or is it just to indoctrinate them with whatever the test-maker (because it will change every election) comes up with? A thing you must study for but with no reprecussions? Ya right.

Once you create a certification for it, it will become a private passport for access to goods or services, or it will be meaningless. In both cases its either a waste or evil.

With a mandatory test also come mandatory lessons. If you don't pass you have to keep taking the lessons. The lessons will lead to the population having better skills. Seriously I had hoped swimming lessons analogy would make you understand. What is the purpose of swimming lessons and test? Is that done to indoctrinate people that they should not drown? Is having passed a swimming test a private passport for access to goods and services? Get real...

I'm not sure why you keep going down this dark path which I didn't even touch on remotely. You just completely imagine it.