Ignorance, Democracy, and Mental Illness

 


Ignorance always degenerates into some form of mental illness. I'll go further: ignorance is currently the main cause of mental illnesses. Educational institutions, namely schools, high schools, and universities, have among their primary objectives the fight against the ignorance of their members, aiming to destroy it in the most specialized and complete way possible. Education aims to replace ignorance — with which we are all born — with scientific knowledge — into which we progressively become educated.

Conversely, postmodern pedagogy is primarily oriented toward preserving the lack of knowledge in those who are to be educated. The result is that students do not know how to navigate life. Education, a term derived from the Latin "ducere," essentially refers to knowing how to guide oneself, how to conduct oneself, especially through adverse events. Education is essentially dialectical: it demands a confrontation with the inevitable.

Postmodern pedagogy has been constructed in violent opposition to any form of scientific, critical, and dialectical education. In fact, it is destined to preserve the ignorance and lack of insight of the learners. As a result, the student finds themselves in a world they do not comprehend, living disoriented in a country whose history they do not understand, speaking and learning languages — including English — in many cases completely useless due to the useless and unproductive way they will use them for most of their lives. They remain unaware of the gaps in which their own ignorance heals day by day, and ultimately develop forms of ...

 

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