Many state that education is the instrument to everyone’s salvation in the sense of society but fail to see it as the very system that creates class stratification.
They say that if education was more enforced and available such things like classism, criminality and so called forms of social deviance will be greatly reduced to nothing.
They will say that education is the savior of everyone’s future as if it was divinity itself.
The irony of all these statements and proclamations is that education is the very source of classism, criminality, what some absolutists call social deviance.
It is the very source of categorization and classification that creates idealistic distinctions of people in a global economical face through the value market system.
It is the same system that regulates those who are to be the “idealistic” citizens of tomorrow and at the same time it pronounces those who shall be “enslaved” who do not fit into idealistic criterias of economical value.
Who says that stuff? I think Amedinejad said something like that about science in his speech at Colombia, but besides that maniac I think most people agree that education as it currently stands is something that’s used by people who can get it, to get ahead of those who can’t.
I’d say that’s pretty messed up. The world would in fact be a better place with proper education systems which could teach everyone what they need to know to take care of themselves, produce more than they consume and so on, but it’s just not like that right now and I don’t see it becoming that way anytime soon. What with the govt being responsible for the majority of education and curriculum, you can pretty much bet that they’re going to serve the interests of their own individual nations before they serve those of the world at large.
Are you saying that you don’t hear how politicians and business men say how education is what will make society “better” with individuals being more “useful”?
Education is the main promise of salvation in a modern society.
A educated “human being” is the ideal citizen.
A educated “human being” is worth more than ten uneducated ones.
The irony of all this is that every type of knowledge and wisdom is relative. It was never intended to apply in judgement of people by others.
If a person has no drive to be educated, then no amount of teaching will get sufficient knowledge into their head. Or perhaps their interest in learning lies off the beaten path and they don’t know it.
Education means you learn how to think, to search, to gain more knowledge;
Teaching is just training you to remember the correct answer.
You can be taught or you can be educated. It depends upon you and your drive and interest. Even someone with a low IQ can be educated.
You decide what you want, no one else can do that. You are the divider no one else can set you in place.
Even self education is education Joker. And without it you would not be making this argument. You have a problem with the enforcement of education in society. Which is not perfect, but as always not as dire as you make it out to be
It seems to me that most current teaching puts too much emphasis on conformity - rote memorization - the “absolute truth” of the past opinions of others (facts) - rather than encouraging the instinctive curiosity (the joy of learning) that all children naturally have. I would also like to see more emphasis on “non-traditional thinking” - open-minded imagination. I was lucky enough to get a scholarship to a great school - Cranbrook - that encourages these things - and learning about anything that piques my curiosity has been a life-long hobby.
I just don’t think education should be a institution. It is the very institution along with the state that suppresses freedom and passes ridiculous judgements on people that has no qualitative merit.
In the historical beginning of education it was all about individual enlightenment but anymore it is just a economical commodity like anything else centered around a pointless rat race of society.
Education essentially has become a religious institution guided by father god the state.
If only we were tought to be more different than the same. This would actually defeat prejudice, because if everyone thought of each other as different, they can’t blame a particulliar group, while conformity breeds prejudice.
How else can we go about taking the small amount of people who know something, and get thier information to the large amount of people who know nothing? I agree that education shouldn’t be something like a rat race of people with no qualitative merit, but I’m not sure if I think that it actually is. What better way to get the knowledge out to the masses?
Not realy, My general thoughts are that society has to change I’ve writen quite a few threads on matters such as these myself. But I stick to the truth of the matter, I dont try and dress the matter up to look more dramatic
Joker once you turn 23, get married, have a kid or get honorably discharged from the military you’ll qualify for a pell grant. If you want I’ll help you fill out the form and you can terrorize your local philosophy department on the government’s dime. It’s not a bad way to kill 4 years, you’d probably be above average for an undergraduate student and who knows man??? You could end up w/ a reasonable job and lifestyle that might make you second guess yourself about abandoning society.
There are alot of places where you find oppression and utter horseshit on a college campus, the philosophy dept is rarely one of them.
…is it not just a means to an end: of which you decide the end result? It’s another tool to utilise: like your own innate ones, and in conjunction with them…
