Monday 24 August 2020

What education is the right education?

To hold oneself in high esteem because one has a degree of knowledge is to assume those who have chosen an alternative education is not of such high standing but who gets to say what is taught in institutionalised schooling is correct and all else is wrong or at best questionable? In challenging the narrative of what it means to be educated we open minds to the possibility that instead of gaining an education we are instead learning to become the oppressors when we put ourselves and others on pedal stools for holding privileged awards of merit.
One may have socially recognised qualifications but that doesn't necessarily mean one is intelligent or wise enough to know this doesn't place them above or make better than those who don't. But it may grant one privilege denied to those who don't. When challenged over such ideology they will rationalise the argument that the challenger is either envious or not educated enough to know what they say. In some circumstances, they may be right but isn't that the failing of the system rather than the individual? The success of the institutionalised educational system is in the oppressed becoming the oppressors, to serve the oppressors rather than liberate the oppressed. Liberation doesn't serve the oppressors,
it serves all of life for liberation is life itself, if not then we are not liberated.

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