The Problem of Education

When one discovers something for themselves -- and teaches it to others, that action and language is very powerful.

When one merely learns to repeat the jargon one is taught as though they really knew something, only a roomful of people with that same “education”, reporters, and lawmakers may be “impressed,” because they too think that what is impressive to others -- is to speak as much as possible without meaning anything -- which of course, is not critical thinking, or thinking of any kind but only putting each other to sleep in exasperation.

Unfortunately, that’s what contemporary education has become -- this learning and teaching of education jargon and explanations that don’t mean or amount to anything that can be measured or demonstrated. It is just enough to claim they know something that the rest do not.

And so in creating the education degree and curriculum, to learn this, they have contrived a shortage of (qualified) people who really do know something -- and could teach it, if all this phoniness was not propagated in its stead.

That kind of b.s. is unlimited -- while as you may know, the “basics” are just the basics that everyone could learn quite quickly and easily -- if that was clearly their focus and they were not forced through all the mental gymnastics -- one hopes to forget as soon as possible from those with nothing else to do in life but impress us with how “knowledgeable” and “worthy” they are.

So this huge money-draining industry of “education” has replaced the simplicity and most basic instinct of learning -- as though that is impossible to do except for the existence of such professionals. Because of the pervasive of information and newness, exposure and learning is pretty nearly impossible -- unlike the days of the pioneering frontier days when the school room and newspaper were the only contact with the larger world. But such institutions have not evolved to remain relevant -- but are instead insisting that the rest of society cannot go ahead beyond them.

This is the very manifestation of dysfunction -- the dependency of one on another. The great fulfillment of every society is the liberation of every individual from this dependency on others. But now the institutions that were created to promote this freedom, cannot let go of their own codependency, and are insisting that they are needed more than ever before. That just “does not compute” with today’s realities -- in which only minimal supervision is now required for individuals to direct their own learning, according interests, at their own pace.

Of course the most frustrating and futile undertaking in today’s world, would be trying to keep a group from the diversity of lifestyles, aptitudes and exposures, in lockstep adherence to the singular political correctness one has received directives from imagined superiors who know these things better than each is capable of determining for themselves. That is the whole purpose of real education.