Illegal Results of Education

Segregation is an illegal practice throughout most of the world; and, as such, there are many laws that protect people from suffering said fate. However, the segregation that seems to be the subject of those laws is of racial nature even though such segregation is not the only one people experience. The most notorious one being that caused by the difference in education attainment levels. Education, as a system, does not only educate people, as one would tautologically claim, rather its effects are far more complicated and appalling. Education segregates people in the most unrecognized, yet definite way.
The first stage of the problem begins with the fact that not everyone has the opportunity to attain a college level education. Attending a university is not an opportunity everyone enjoys. Then, the problem is exacerbated by the lack of ambition from many of those who have the opportunity to attend such institutions. However, the problem feeds off of the changes education brings about. Education changes the way people appreciate and observe the world through simply changing the way they think.
The world is such a plain place without the benefit or detriment of education. After one has experience higher education, however, the world becomes a completely different place. It is not longer simple rather it becomes very complicated. Every observation becomes detailed and is meticulously analyzed because there is an urge to discover a meaning beyond what the senses provide. This challenge is first experienced during college, any education before is of a more general sense such that the puzzles there observed do not have many consequences due to the simplicity of the courses.
Elementary education is precisely of such basic nature that the children are at that time much more interested in the time they are given as recess than they are on what they learned in the classroom. There are, of course, exceptions to this rule. There are those children who at an early age learn the importance education has in their lives and they strive to acquire the knowledge their teachers offer them. As children progress through the education system, their mentality changes. But as a result of the many physical and psychological changes they experience, most fail to realize the intellectual change that is also taking place. Unfortunately, if not recognized, such important change is not fed and it eventually perishes. It abandons its objective of creating a well-rounded individual who can face the twisted world one inhabits.
University education, nevertheless, has the biggest impact on this modification to human knowledge. If the transformation experience in the early years of one’s life is properly attended to, one will, first, find a way in which to attend an institution that will provide a higher level of education despite the superficial impossibility of doing so. In this way, education becomes an issue of a certain choice. If one truly desires such learning experience and what it brings about, one will procure it. The wisdom then obtained is not necessarily the wisdom one had expected to come across when one first walked through campus. Conversely, one learns that the world is a cruel place and that one will struggle unless one is at the top position in whatever one decides to do after one has received a diploma. In the mean time, this new education alters not only physical appearance since one struggles to be more of a college student, to leave behind the rich past from which one emerged in order to be accepted in the academic sphere, but it also revolutionizes one’s views and thoughts about the world and the people who inhabit it. It becomes so deeply embedded that one’s vocabulary learns to accommodate itself according to the occasion and the people one interacts with. Those who are college educated then become a segregated group with visions of what the world should be like. They criticize the world’s every detail, but fail to admire and complete a project, which would allow for real change. Through them, the problem they attempted to solve roots itself more deeply as they find themselves benefited by the system they once wished to dismantle.
Education creates an invisible barrier between those who know and those who do not even without a definition of such knowledge. It creates a new form of segregation, which it encourages and propagates. As such, education is useless because it bends itself into becoming one more tool of oppression even if liberation remains undefined.

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Poison Drops


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