Society in the reverse

Thus far, we can tell, as it lurks in the background, that education is being assaulted by the margins of society.

Old-school educationists who are rather left behind or are less adaptive to globalization are more often than not stuck in the phase where education is the only voucher for gradual entrance to larger society. It is like education as a social institution dictates who goes out to make a name and who are the ones who must remain at the margins.

What distorted this status quo is nothing but globalization that has made all places a single village of sorts with the “free-flow” of ideas, commerce and trade, culture, and so on.

The old-school educationists are more likely to refer to and judge your intellectual growth based on your neighborhood, as it has been for people in the past, whereas nowadays, one can just fucking sit down in a far-flung area with a decent internet connection running and learn the intricacies of all human faculty.

By implication, education’s worth is a bit reduced by this topsy-turviness of phenomenon. It does fairly seem that what was once taken into account as margins of society where non-knowledge and non-skill exist turns out to be an endless source of knowledge and skills.

Thus far, we can tell, as it lurks in the background, that education is being assaulted by the margins of society. Education, being the epicenter of society, is now being challenged with endless not-going-to-university brouhaha. The take here is that education must institute a man (as it has been done by the Sophists of Ancient Greece) both inside and outside of its halls. But why is it that those who are at the margins of society have found a way to institute themselves even far from what the epicenter of society can offer?

What in the hell has happened?

Taking it one step further, it is true that a teacher may be at the epicenter of society but earn an unfair amount of salary, or to point out the furthest reality, one may have a PhD and be unemployed. However, as we gaze at the margins of society, we see high-earning people smirking either at those who think they are celebrities of society or at the fact that they have outsmarted capitalism.