Unlocking The Truth: 10 Jaw-Dropping Quotes Exposing The Education System
What is the purpose of the education system? Is it to prepare students for life or to make them obedient citizens? Here are ten quotes that expose the education system.
The education system is presented as an institution meant to help prepare children for the future. It is often marketed as being necessary for having a functional society. The problem is that the education system does the opposite of what parents are told it does. Here are ten jaw-dropping quotes that reveal the true nature of the education system.
“The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda- a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready made. The aim is to make good citizens, which is to say docile and uninquisitive citizens.” - H.L. Mencken
The best time to introduce ideas to people is when they are young. The ideas go into their subconscious. They then will remain there. In most cases, those are the ideas that someone will continue to believe throughout their lifetime. The ideas and curriculum taught in school make students obedient and unquestioning citizens who obey people in authority.
“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.” - H.L. Mencken
The education system is misnamed. It is not to properly educate students so that they become productive citizens who can contribute to society. The education system is meant to graduate ignorant people who believe they are bright and intelligent. Students only think they are brilliant because they can pass tests and please a teacher or professor. How the education system is designed manufactures people who likely will never have an original idea in their lifetime. That is because they regurgitate what they read from their high school or college books or what their professors told them.
“Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.” - John Green
Graduates from higher education often think they are better than people without a college degree. This is even more true about graduates from an Ivy League university. In reality, they may be academically intelligent but do not have common sense and, in many cases, lack critical thinking skills. Many people graduate from college without understanding the basics of personal finance and go hundreds of thousands of dollars into debt for a fancy, overpriced piece of paper.
“I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.” – Seymour Papert
The education system teaches students to remain obedient, docile, and dependent upon others. The education system does not teach students the vital skills to succeed: critical thinking, self-responsibility, personal finance, how to start a business, and how to hone strengths. It is meant to prevent students from learning about themselves, asking hard questions about life, and viewing self-development as hard rather than necessary. The education system intentionally creates weak people who are obedient to people who are over them at the workplace or in another part of society.
“The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.” - John Taylor Gatto
That is all that the education system does. Study this so that you can pass this test. Listen and obey your teacher so that you can graduate. You can get a reference for your first job if you are lucky.
“And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.” - Malcolm X
There is the idea that just because someone has graduated from college, especially an Ivy League university, they have received an excellent education. They may have just paid too much for a poor education. But because they received a diploma and spent lots of money on that degree, they do not want to be honest about the quality of their education.
“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on – because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions.” – Noam Chomsky
The education system is designed to filter out those who will be obedient and those who will question authority. The ones who obey become good little worker bees for an employer. Most often, those who question authority and do not do well academically in school find ways to succeed independently. They learn to utilize their creativity and make money alone and may cause more than those who toed the line. They often know why self-education is critical.
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn
A traditional education followed by paying for the proper certifications to keep up with your employers’ requirements will only get a person so far. A person will earn income, which an employer can reduce or cut at any time. An employer can replace an employee with cheaper labor and technology today. In contrast, many self-made millionaires attribute self-education to their financial success.
“It seems as if the education system is rapidly forgetting that people can feel better about themselves when they succeed through, in some cases, multiple failures.” - Fröderick Frankensteen
The education system teaches people that failure is bad. It teaches students that they will fail if they do poorly on quizzes, tests, and exams. In contrast, failure and hard life lessons can lead to success.
“Being top of your class does not necessarily guarantee that you will be top in life. Life requires much more than your ability to understand a concept, memorise it and reproduce it in an exam. Intelligence and excellence in life go beyond your ability to provide cut-and-paste answers.” - Nicky Verd
The education system, both high school and college, places too much emphasis on the idea that someone must graduate at the top of their class to be successful. That likely just means that someone is good at taking tests, can regurgitate information, and can memorize random facts to please a professor. That is all that college does.
Many skills are never taught in college and high school. Some of these include how to follow a budget, run a successful business, and get along with people you disagree with.
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Summary
The education system is wrongly revered as where young people from kindergarten up to doctorate programs receive a proper education. It is often the exact opposite. They only read and learn things the system tells them they must know. They then say to their teachers and professors the answers that they want. Students then become good, obedient, and compliant employees. They never ask critical or essential questions about the system or whether there could be other ways to make money outside the employee model. The education system did its job in transforming an obedient student into an unquestioning employee who will be too afraid ever to start something of their own.
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Views expressed in this article are the author's opinions and do not necessarily reflect the views of Secure Single. It is intended for informational and educational purposes only. It is not financial advice. James Bollen is the author of Thriving Solo: How to Flourish and Live Your Perfect Life (Without A Soulmate). It is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.
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For me, one disappointing aspect of the education system is that it's become privatized (along with many other things in our lives) and turned into a lucrative business opportunity.
As a result, education, particularly tertiary education, which is a fundamental right and should be accessible to everyone, has become unaffordable for many people, and those who do go through it, are straddled with huge debts well into their adult life.
This is truly one of the biggest failures of the political system.