Let's Study and Die!
“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.” ― Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle I believe it was just yesterday I said, "It seems like the whole world is busy turning all the schools into hagwons." I don't know how many times I've said it but two of the educational patterns I've seen in my travels throughout Asia are the abject commercialization of education that has become the norm in Asia and the adoption of this backward strategy by the west. And I&