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I believe the contemporary education system has done a great disservice to the young minds of this generation and generations prior. In the past, opportunities for edification and learning were a privilege for the upper strata of society, while the peasant underclass remained largely uneducated, and there was no need for such, for what use were lofty, intellectual abstractions to the down-to-earth laborers and townsfolk?
However, with the advent of industrialisation and the emergence of a new middle class, there came a need to educate the masses and raise them out of intellectual poverty as the economic powerhouses moved from the countryside to the cities, and labour became more specialised and complex. This was accomplished through the state-driven democratisation and standardisation of education which was tailored for the lowest common denominator. In this way, education became widely accessible (to the exclusion of other means) through this kind of institutionalised conglomerate, where prior the basis for learning and moral instruction came from the family and the shared values of a community, and individuals were largely self-directed in regards to their education.
Our forebears were eloquent, intelligent and well knowledgeable on the affairs of the world. The fruits of the modern education system, only another arm of the state apparatus of which purpose is to mold individuals into conforming servile 'citizens', have left us with societies of pacified, docile worker drones (and this is intended, mind you). In an environment where learning is slowly drip-fed and systematised, tainted with the air of ideology and honey-coated instruction which preach state subservience, how could we aspire to emulate those eminent figures of old when they were brought up in a mileu so radically different from us? Only by eschewing schooling in it's modern, institutionalised form, and encouraging an education which is self-guided and intellectually rich could we perhaps one day, nurture a generation whose capability and prowess hearken back to, or even surpass, our predecessors before the modern era.
However, with the advent of industrialisation and the emergence of a new middle class, there came a need to educate the masses and raise them out of intellectual poverty as the economic powerhouses moved from the countryside to the cities, and labour became more specialised and complex. This was accomplished through the state-driven democratisation and standardisation of education which was tailored for the lowest common denominator. In this way, education became widely accessible (to the exclusion of other means) through this kind of institutionalised conglomerate, where prior the basis for learning and moral instruction came from the family and the shared values of a community, and individuals were largely self-directed in regards to their education.
Our forebears were eloquent, intelligent and well knowledgeable on the affairs of the world. The fruits of the modern education system, only another arm of the state apparatus of which purpose is to mold individuals into conforming servile 'citizens', have left us with societies of pacified, docile worker drones (and this is intended, mind you). In an environment where learning is slowly drip-fed and systematised, tainted with the air of ideology and honey-coated instruction which preach state subservience, how could we aspire to emulate those eminent figures of old when they were brought up in a mileu so radically different from us? Only by eschewing schooling in it's modern, institutionalised form, and encouraging an education which is self-guided and intellectually rich could we perhaps one day, nurture a generation whose capability and prowess hearken back to, or even surpass, our predecessors before the modern era.
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