On Education and the State.

  

I believe it's safe to say that our Democratic Republic is built on a system that relies on instability as the means of change. A major part of this instability which our system is built on comes down to the factioning off of groups of people. The push and pull between factions specifically in terms of politics, philosophy and economics leads to our system heavily relying on the conflict between these numerous groups in order for any type of major change to happen. Our whole system is built on a system of theoretical strings between different factions that are constantly being loosened and tightened depending on the current socio economic state of the said groups.  I will be the first one to admit that this Madisonian system has a certain Unity to it and is bound to work for some amount of time, but given enough time any system built on this much tension will eventually break down. Our current political system constantly exposes the theoretical strings that connect the factions to one another to constant friction and or tension, as with any relationship given enough tension it will break, and as with any rope given enough tension it will snap.

Since the end of the War of Northern Aggression the federal system that the founding fathers envisioned started to break down. For the sake of preserving the sanctity of the Union President Abraham Lincoln sacrificed our federal standard of balanced state and federal rites, this in turn has led to the federal government becoming more and more involved with the everyday life of individual citizens, while this relationship does have its assets it's all so extremely detrimental to the personal Liberty of the individual and the over all fabric of our society. A quote from Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching States that ‘governing a country is like cooking a small fish poking it too much ruins the whole thing.”

One of the original purposes of Education here in the United States and in general was to be able to produce well-rounded and generally well educated citizens. Now it would seem that given the intellectual ability and standing of many people my age and younger that the system has failed. We now have a society more concerned with what's going on in the virtual world than with what's happening right beneath our noses. Technology has in a sense caused a great disconnection from reality. Though it must be said that we cannot blame the shortcomings completely on the citizens themselves. A recent push in educational trends has been leading students toward the Sciences technology and Mathematics, why these subjects do have their places they do not have their place at the expense of the humanities. In recent years there has been a great setback in the teachings of things related to the humanities. This in turn has led to a more impersonal and more plastic group of civilians, the citizens are not being taught anymore what makes them human, just what can make them productive.



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