Now, since this list seems to be too quiet i'd like to stir the waters
a bit. You say:
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Comment
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Due to our education system we are governed, judged, looked after and
taught by
people who do not deserve a driving license let alone a high school
diploma.
The system favors and promotes people whose main merit consists in
having fathers
being born before them and stuffs them with complex, esoteric and
useless details
without touching the essence of science, art, reason and creativity.
Conclusion
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Aberrant education system seems to be one of major problems of our
society.
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You last statement implies that:
1-there's an aberrant education which causes
2-major problems in our society.
This is your viewpoint, and i fully agree. But, using relative terms,
we should try to "see" this situation with the eyes of the society or
the education, for i'm convinced that no real change can ever occur if
the subject has no will of change.
In other words i'd say that the aberrant education is functional to
what you call the major problems of our society, but others call
progress, civilization, culture, science etc.... Which produces an
aberrant education, just to play it safe.
What values do common people attach to "education" (ie school)? Better
jobs, usually. Thus more money. I live in a region (Northeast Italy)
where music has always been considered anything but a part-time hobby,
while the academic instruction has always been considered the most
intelligent thing that a teenager could conceive and learn.
And this has nothing to do with the political belief of the family:
they might be marxists or fascists, their opinion about this is pretty
the same. Thus the official education is a transversal "need" caused
by recent memories of scarcity (IMHO). We need more, we need it now.
This transversal need plays a fundamental role in our societies and
makes aberrant education possible. Such education is aberrant for
some, but plausible for many. Those "many" might not consider the
current education a problem. They'd rather identify minor bugs in it
and fix them.
Or, as Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa in his "il Gattopardo" says:
"If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for
everything to change."
Best regards
Tonguessy
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G:
Nothing can be IMO more true. Still, there are unnumerable possible
changes, so what and how may and should be changed?
We are currently running the Democracy Workshop, which narrows down
the scope of desirable changes, mainly in the chapter "Transition
to Democracy".
Could you, please, try to put your comment in this context?