Education of the select few

Why is the education given to us so important when all does is let a generation of brilliant children yet to sprout wither before they become what they are meant to be?

Why suppress the imagination and hopes of such a beautiful and complex creature just to push some select few's agenda forward on what they think should be know by every child?

Are they purposely doing this atrocious act just to keep on top of everyone?

Just to keep the foothold they have and never let anyone rise above them?

Do they know that their greed causes the death of thousands who can't keep up in the twisted system they created?

Do they know that they stamp out any hope for the progressive and fast development of a nation that used to gleam? 

Do they know that because of people like them we are stuck in a ditch that no one is able to crawl out of?  

Author's Note

just an idea is it any good?

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[FGFRANKLIN]

"Education" is a relative concept. Some people can survive in the wild on roots, nuts, berries and plants. They can set snares for food and catch fish with their bare hands, noodling. They can build a shelter from what's available to them in nature that is warm and weatherproof. That's called a "survivalist". But it's a "type" of education. Other people can talk quantum physics and astrophysics and thermodynamics and molecular structure. Some can solve mathematical equations with their minds quicker than calculators. Others can talk about art, poetry, language and writing in historical and contemporary perspective with relative ease. Public education has become more of a social indoctrination than an actual education process. Everyone is being taught to think the same way. It isn't actually fostering any critical thinking or offering any insight into "how" to think but only "what" to think. It kills all hope of imagination and creativity as well as stifling personal proclivity and innate predisposition to certain subject matter. All aren't born to be astrophysicists and engineers. Likewise, all aren't born to be a Picasso or a Thoreau. We need schools and universities that offer a diverse curriculum that recognizes the individual needs and aspirations of the students. There are a few of these called magnet schools that tend to the scholastic needs of the individual student but they are few and far between. The need for basic education or reading, writing and arithmetic is still there. It does little good to offer specialized education, for instance, to someone who can't read. I think today too much education is being deliquiated into an ever increasing need for technology. Students can't learn to spell because they depend on spellcheck to get the proper spelling. They don't do research because they can pull a collegiate opinion from the internet and change a few words and turn it in as their own work. No thinking required. I place part of the blame on this dependence on technology but a larger part on plain old fashioned laziness and the unwillingness of students to put in the work required to earn their education. You can lead a student to class but you can't make them study. The autodidact can be as well educated as the most prestigious ivy league school student today. There's no excuse for not being educated except that one simply doesn't wish to be. The old Biblical adage was, "Physician, heal thyself." Today that can be translated into. "Student, teach thyself." And if one really wants to learn I see very little in the way that can prevent him/her from it.