Educational Value?
Education is touted as being a very important facet of socialization--taxes are used for education and so we do pay the premium for it; and we hear day to day how important school is and how we must maintain standards of excellence and develop leadership. On the other hand, we are a bit scornful of inividuals who truly learn and think about situations, or who may not be all that practical, and even praise those with little education who are over-night sensations because they succeed economically by their God-given talents. Nothing wrong with having talent--it just is that it is a rare commodity and one that for 98% of the population that is truly lacking.
But then when the virtues of diligence, effort, study and hard work are usurped by those that 'beat' the system--those that scorn it from all walks of life, it must give our young people a very disorienting view of what values are important. Then, on top of al that, we cheat the earnestness of these innocent minds by making tests that are incredibly unfair, that bias in favour of some but not for others, and we maintainan elitist system--a guild as it were--where membership is closely guarded and concealed from true view. If you are in, well, you can reap all the rewards and power your membership afords. If you are out, well, get down on your knees and start scrubbing.
Yes, life is not fair; I happen to have each foot in each of these camps, and then I come here where the rules are non-negotiable, totally corupt, unfair, and I would even say inhumane and cruel.
I wish I could ask the university president what he would think should his own children have to go through the system he endorses? Of course his children are exempt (if he has any--not sure). He has all the power and resources to ensure his kids will get the finest, whether they earn it or not. Ironically, they will go to American universities, where equality and opportunity are indeed open for all. Ha.
Anyway, this experience is not for naught. It is useful for fodder to write about.The story to be told.
Your faithful story-teller
Gaga | 10:49 AM
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