Education is the most important thing humanity has ever come up with. Bar none.
But institutionalism and bureaucracy has warped the goals of education. The goals are no longer to teach knowledge, but to recite information, useful or not. The same situation happens in any large business or institution. People forget what it is the institution is there to do.
Businesses were originally set aside to provide a service so that individuals did not have to create all their tools and goods. These businesses were accepted because they could provide something better than what the individual managed to create, because the artisan could hone his craft. While most of the products today are still better than what most people can make on their own, big companies no longer focus on providing services to people. They find a way to make a cheaper product, and mass produce it. Walmart for instance, creates many products, and does so cheaply, but everything I have bought at Walmart has dissatisfied me to the point where I avoid the store at all costs.
Wildlife preservation is another field I have touched on before. Their goal was to help animals survive, and prevent developing businesses from clearing the planet of all it's various environments. However, this goal has been twisted into setting up a list of "endangered" species and blocking all human activity from specific areas. This means that indigenous peoples who live peaceably with their environment are often times forced off of land when it is set up as a refuge. Also the preservation institutions no longer care about animals unless there is a direct threat to them. For instance polar bears, which are only now being considered for the endangered species list, have been driven from their natural habitat, and have been intermingling with brown bears. So far, wildlife protection agencies have been very limited in their intervention to help out this species which is not yet "endangered" but will be within a few years, guaranteed.
Medicine, which (If I may take an idea from Patch Adams) is intended to improve the quality of the lives we live. Yet only 10% of the worlds medical funding goes into 90% of the worlds diseases. Do we really need to spend more money to cure obesity? Heres the solution: exercise! What about Chagas Disease, or Cholera, or Yellow Fever... Nobody cares about THOSE inflictions.
Mass production has enveloped our way of life, to the point where people no longer understand anything outside of their allotted field of study. (I know this. A friend of mine works as a general handyman for the college we go to, and it is surprising when engineers request help to fix a leaky sink, when all my friend has to do is turn the knob under the basin. ENGINEERS!)
Teaching has become for the sake of teaching because if you can follow a curriculum, in the eyes of bureaucracy, your a more productive teacher than one who may teach more practical issues, yet who may miss one or two issues which the kids will never see again. Teaching has transformed from being taught for kids benefits, to being a way for adults to say with statistics, "my kid is better than yours." It has also transformed kids into this system. Learning the material in the class is no longer so that you may use it in real life, but rather to study for the next test, or further your career as a student/professional.
In the world of today, Gemeinschaft is no more, all is Gesellschaft.
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