DWQA QuestionsCategory: Human CorruptionBertrand Russell said, “Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” What is Creator’s perspective?
Nicola Staff asked 2 years ago
There is far more truth here than one might see at first glance. This can be easily dismissed as the bias of an elite intellectual, a kind of snobbery, but this is actually a deep truth. People have more capability than they express, for the most part, and that difference in achievement is a function of suppression and subjugation by interlopers holding down society across the board, through many strategies, to constrain things and limit progress. It is a truism that while humans at birth are ignorant because they lack experience and must learn everything from scratch, including the language to understand what others can teach them, the vast majority of people have adequate intelligence to be successful, happy adults, and carry on the business of life to sustain themselves and have a reasonable happy life when left to their own devices, and not actively harmed in some way to limit them through disincentives and subjecting them to traumatic events that could hobble them emotionally. Given that the education system is the cultural default mechanism agreed to by society for the responsibility of educating the young, it behooves all in society to take pains to understand what it is the education system does, how it is constructed, how well it works, and how effective it might be and why. Yet people are trusting and assume what is not in evidence, that things are proceeding as they should. Public education is highly questionable in terms of effectiveness, and the track record of accomplishment is showing a steady decline in the level of education those graduating exhibit with standardized testing, so more and more money is being spent for less and less achievement across the board. Many have criticized the content and very goals of public education, and rightly so, because it is illogical to treat everyone the same when human beings are designed to be unique individuals. The educational system demands uniformity and a single standard for judging talent and degree of learning. Much of the time devoted in the classroom is spent on make-work exercises that have little point to them. People are forced to learn much material that has little or no relevance to the real world of making a living and understanding one's place in today's society. This is no accident. The education system was meant to be a kind of holding pen to capture the young, suppress them and their enthusiasm, squelch their creative impulses and passions, and bore them to the point they will want to opt out rather than stay the course, and many do. The end result, even for graduates, is they are ill-prepared to play a meaningful role in society, and even the learning within the professional schools and the science and engineering programs lags well behind the cutting edge of discovery and advancing knowledge. So, in a sense, all people do in school is repeat the past rather than break new ground and learn how to innovate and exercise their creativity. So our overall assessment of the education system is that, in many ways, it is the height of stupidity in being so misguided and ineffectual in offering an education that is meaningful.