Education is not what you might think it is.  Imitation thinking is taught.  This isn’t just in school.  This continues the rest of your life to ensure you repeat falsehoods.  The goal is to destroy real education.  This didn’t start recently.  There isn’t, and hasn’t been, a concern for the truth.  Truth isn’t useful to the statist.  Truth and justice aren’t determined by popular vote.  Honest education must be resurrected.

There seems to have been a Faustian bargain in education.  There is a tendency toward laziness.  If the masses are lazy, they will not pursue the truth.  Education is hidden behind statist falsehoods or opinions.  As the masses are lazy and don’t seek the truth, they are not intellectually curious and display blind obedience.  Blind obedience is oppression.

The masses have an idea of what education should be.  People are taught to repeat nonsense their entire lives.  This is more dangerous than any biological epidemic.  Education is a mental epidemic.  The statists don’t have any concern with the truth.  If you hear anything from a statist, its best to assume it’s nonsense, because it probably is.  The masses don’t thirst after truth.  Believing the statist nonsense is leading you to the slaughterhouse.

This statist nonsense is to train you to become an obedient subject.  The goal is to never have the subject question the nonsense they are told to believe.    If the masses are obedient to this nonsense, they become passive.  A passive population is a herd.  The herd can be lead anywhere and told to believe anything.  So long as it’s the first thing they hear.  Once nonsense is the first thing they hear, it is difficult, or nearly impossible, to convince them of the truth.

Say, Crusoe hands Friday a fist full of sand on day one.  Then, he hands him a fish on day two.  Friday wouldn’t reject the fish because Crusoe used sand on the first day.  Friday isn’t going to anchor, he’ll use his common sense.  Yes, this example is obvious, but the logic is the same.  Friday won’t accept the nonsense, neither should you.  Don’t sell your soul to the devil like Faust.

Reference

Friedrich Nietzsche; The Untimely Meditations