Against Education

First and foremost VERY cynical. That is not to say it isn’t without merit. I have had discussions with friends about the fact that an “adult” today is someone who would have been allowed to participate in a more functional way in society only a hundred years ago. As the paper points out that childhood has been extended by three to six years by these large educational institutions. These schools reinforce this notion that we are not adults until we are out of high school. Even once we are out of high school college encourages this once again by instilling this notion that even at age twenty-two are still are not part of the “real world” yet. Somewhere between one third and a quarter of our lives go by with us being convinced that we aren’t yet mature enough to participate in “real” society. This has been formative years spent reinforcing the notion that we cannot think for ourselves and by the time that we are supposed to do so many are not able to. The paper takes this to the extent that we are being trained to be a docile mass that is easily guided by a small but powerful minority that want nothing less than control over all of us. This is expanding on the idea slightly but not by much distance. Once again cynical but perhaps not without merit.