History is a class struggle — Marx

The system favors the prepared and stable, rather than the ones who are at the margins.

The Philippines still maintains a very classical view of education. We conform to the narrative that after being instituted in the family, an individual steps outside to enter a larger one: education as a social institution. The family now becomes a support system for the individual, where that same person becomes the supposed finest representative of the entire family, if not clan. Very pre-romantic as it may be, this view is outright bullsh*t and very anti-democratic. We fail to look into the fact that some may be having a dysfunctional primary social group, and we could not put our fingers on such an instance; because the system favors the prepared and stable, rather than the ones who are at the margins. The purpose of education–aside from truly putting sense into the heads of every human being–has morphed into who gets into the centers of society and how not to remain at its margins. And whoever gets into the said centers makes history. Thus far, Marx has put it right: history is a class struggle. The pride of every family lies in all of its resources ready to support every member who goes out to society.