A Square Peg In A Square Hole

On Ganymede in Poul Anderson's "The Snows of Ganymede," a porter is gigantic with four arms and an inhumanly vacant face. As in HG Wells' The First Men In The Moon and in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, individuals are physically adapted for their social roles and status. If everyone is thus content with his lot, then society is stable, in theory.

In my idea of an optimal society:

unwanted drudgery will be automated or eliminated;

education will first help each individual to identify his self-realizing activity and secondly prepare him for that activity.

Thus, each individual will be not a "peg" shaped to fit into a preexisting "hole" but a "peg" whose "hole" has been shaped for him.

My education was no preparation for either work or life. I could have been an ivory tower intellectual but fortunately that did not happen. I was a square peg in a round hole but learned a lot which is what I value.