Is America’s Higher Education a War Weapon?
Throughout this article, the word America refers to the landmass comprising the continents of North and South America.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in its article 26 says:
“Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages”.
Why does the declaration make a distinction between higher education and the other levels? I personally believe it would better is it just was “Education shall be free and equally accessible to all”.
A public education free and equally accessible to all must coexist in our countries in order to guarantee an actual intentionally equal society.
Many states and governments all around the world use their systems of education to satisfy pervert business. Education corrupted, perverted.
According to the same declaration, “education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms”.
It doesn’t mention that education shall be mainly destined to fulfill economic systems desires. It doesn’t mention that education shall be restricted to offering careers which unique purpose is to guarantee manpower. It doesn’t mention that education shall feed privileges, neither that education should serve as a form of modern discrimination.
And of course, it does not mention that education shall be oppressive.
A pervert open secret war.
I recently came across a LinkedIn video called “3 Ways To Get Hired Without A College Degree” by the Job Search Specialist JT O’Donnell. When answering why companies expect you to have a college degree she answers that “is a tool for discrimination…Hiring is discriminating”. JT also mentioned that it’s just that companies believe people who hold a college degree are more committed to a goal.
Now think about America as a continent that has struggled for offering access to education to every person who wants a desk in a university classroom.
In one hand we see countries like The US and Chile who keep a private higher education system which are both constantly fought internally.
In the other hand we have Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba and Brasil, for example, who have maintained a “free public education accessible to all” for many years. It doesn’t mean that those system haven’t been criticized and highly fought locally.
Our countries are inert to offer access to education to every thinker in New York who wants to study a science or art their passionate about. To every inhabitant of a communist Latin American nation who can’t pay the high price of an education dressed up in public costume.
Back in 2008, I myself paid for a place in Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela, even when I had been chosen by the national system due to my high school record. This is the living hell for many students who can’t do the same or their families just do not want to get corrupted. My mom and I went to hell, I wanted that desk and a bright future.
The intentional damage of politics in America’s war.
The report “A Lost Decade in Higher Education Funding” by the left-leaning think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities shows how The U.S spending on public higher education “remains well below historic levels” hauling in public colleges being forced to compromise the quality of their academic programming, reducing faculty and reducing the number of courses to offer.
As an antagonistic system, the Bolivarian leftist revolutionary autocracy dictatorship of Venezuela has been using public education as a political weapon of indoctrination. Public schools and universities became political laboratories to sow anti-imperialist experiments born in O Foro de São Paulo.
During my years in college, I saw how my university was becoming a Che Guevara’s shaped students manufacture as part of the price to pay for granting your right to education.
Education was sown in our lands like someone who sows a minefield.
About educational systems we must at least try in America.
Granting Universal Public Education does not grant a smarter society.
“When education is not liberatory, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor”, once said the great Brazilian maestro Paulo Freire.
But there’s light in this world. Finland’s current model of education, including higher levels, not only is it educating more innovative and creative beings but also it is resulting in a highly satisfied society according to the World Happiness Report by the United Nations.
Netherlands have started an educational model created by Steve Jobs that is called “for the new era”, a system that promotes autonomous learning where the student himself sets his own goals, guided by the teacher.
We think that a natural step for countries is to improve all their systems at it’s best and this includes to replicate other suscefull ones. But instead, governments keep a traditional educational system as a war weapon that feeds their political businesses.
This systems are not prepared for free masses of thinkers but workers.
How would the world be if we all were prepared to freely dedicate our lives to an activity that makes us economically independent and self-satisfied?
Imagine people studying under innovative models in combination with public universities directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Societies thriving.
Neither Che Guevara nor Uncle Sam.
We want our countries to have public universal access to quality education.
We do not want an education fed to satisfy economic systems’ desires.
We want an education destined to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Students shall not be cannon fodder of this open secret war.
We demand to all our United Nations to offer a more congruent and calling to action Universal Declaration of Human Rights: