How many people in society have landed jobs respectively, in the field of study or education they pursued after high school? I am guessing it's not a very reassuring statistic you want to use in taking the realistic success rate of the post-secondary system. But to some degree, we still hold back our judgment and remain to our convictions that the education system is a beneficial aspect of our society. How could it be doing anything wrong? People are using their time productively and working, and learning. They are learning well. Or more exactly, their senses are being stimulated conductively to the coordination of their memories, and they are paying a lot of money to be responsible for anything they perceive. Of special consideration to keep their theory and practice within the moral high ground of the instructor. Regardless, a university is an icon representing values and virtues, that are seamlessly integrated into our perception of society. We learn history, how to be successful, and importantly, the value of social relationships while in a school.
What is a society without history? And how should we consider that we learn history in school? If you were the education system, wouldn't you want to throw in a line or two about yourself, especially since your controlling history? Orwell could be summarized as saying that controlling history is controlling the future. But that is all forgotten as we come to the realization that the education system teaches Orwell. A dystopian totalitarian society is not possible if we sincerely learned the humility in human nature that Orwell portrays in his fictional work Animal Farm, and nineteen eighty-four. There is a constant nurturing relationship from the social class with the power to try to prevent everyone else from making mistakes. (i.e. the law decreed to the animals', or the responsibility taken on by the citizen in nineteen eighty-four with regards to double-think or double-speak. Kind of ironic, kind of prophetic, I'll admit. So if you lost the train of thought, the education system is responsible for making us better people, as they teach us to learn from our mistakes. Or more exactly, avoid making them, which allows anyone the potential of a neurosis. If you have ever perceived your self-worth as the mistakes you haven't made and not felt like you are falling, you will one day see you have no grounds for your identity. Why do mistakes define us? And why is there a double meaning to that? Can anyone ever learn a mistake on your behalf? Your mistakes are your own. They are priceless and they are valuable. It is the narcissistic side of human behavior that engulfs a man into the pity of another for the sake of saying he learned something. Certain types of documentary movies and even the political ambition of the education system, are more clearly theatres that exist for people to invest their pity, in my opinion. If I have learned one mistake, it's that I once valued the education system above my own personal relationships, as I rested my hopes through the pursuit of attaining knowledge, and one day climbing to the level of the noble class. Big mistake. But I picked up the pieces and I have this to say; what is valued, and what is a success? Is attaining something of merit, that state you need to achieve in order to declare success? What I don't understand, is what we are taught to appreciate. The one thing I remember the most about the school, is that they tell you to value education. This is like a king asks you to respect monarchy, a president- democracy, a priest- religion. The apparent value we have based our lives around is determined by the person or people in power, as they decide when anyone will graduate. Therefore, they write our dreams, they polish our truths, they decide our value, as they decide what value is. I am not trying to state that we are fearfully at the mercy of a bitch-whore leader, but we are philosophically being exploited by the information we are being given with regards to the mantle of societal values. A man who has made only mistakes is truly a tragedy to witness, but with that sentence is a lesson on the irony of human nature. Who said he was wrong? What decided that he made all those mistakes? Was it his own conscientiousness that purveyed him under the supervision of his guilt? If a man is not a murderer or a high stakes culprit, and he perceives himself this way, then I think there is something wrong with society. We have all seen this type of person, a man wearing guilt, but little do we concern ourselves with his business as we more appropriately disassociate from him demonstrating our quick judgment. When you see someone that looks guilty, do you assess the validity of his mistakes, as they would be a derivable fact? That probably wouldn't be your business, but only that of the man in question. If we value education, in that attaining merit or a degree of one is successful, then by semantics, we could decree that not getting an education would be a mistake. If I value what I have, though I am not considered a success, how did I ever learn to come to value anything that I have? Can someone see value without having attained success in the subject of art, of the value itself? In other words, can I ever be successful without appreciating the value of my success?
Warning! You are entering social vampire territory! And that is exactly what the education system is. If you have been paying close attention to my words, you'll notice that I have never placed in a negative notice that product of an education, but I am questioning it's success. Is a qualified man of three degrees more successful than a man who never made an attempt into the post-secondary system, considering they both work at minimum wage jobs by this point today? What is that riddle!? Perhaps the man with a higher education learned something about value in human nature. Maybe the irony of social class? By valuing success, we ensure that the education system will be a place of both value and success. Almost any successful person's biography will show a portrayal of what education that person had made, but the social vampire standing out in this argument is the person stating that the education system is responsible for value. This is where I stand my ground on human existentialism, which is the foundation for our morality and 'education system'. I believe human spirit is responsible for value, and it is the human spirit that works to achieve success. Passed down knowledge teaches people to use education to their advantage- like a vehicle or means. Social narcissism dictates that you get the get the education of most value. Like a Ferrari, or Porsche, because isn't that more successful? It's more valuable.
What occurs to me as the worst fate of our society, is that it rests in the hands of the education system. Unfortunately, that is what has happened. We have subjected ourselves to finding value at all costs, and there for deemed success as secondary. If we were a realistically educated society, we would teach value in our relationships, and not the notion of attaining value as the the only form of success. Greed and despair are prevalent symptoms of our first world country, which is more than enough ambience for a group of social vampires to breed themselves throughout society and take on the moral high ground of our education system.
