When did knowledge gain a price..?
A look at the current education systems reveals that knowledge is no longer priceless, in fact knowledge being priceless, or at least thought of as priceless has completely vanished. Up until the end of high school knowledge is free and in a sense mandatory. But when one chooses to pursue knowledge of their own accord in a field in which they have significant interest, this being university, it costs thousands. Now isn't knowledge something that should be passed on without a price? A professor is educated and gains knowledge and then is paid to pass it on while universities charge exorbitant amounts, in order to supplement what, a pristine campus and the athletic program? How is it that something that does not physically exist gains a price, a metaphysical object with a price. It makes sense to assume that at a certain point universities or groups which pass on knowledge needed or decided to fund a building or a needed to charge a price, most likely called a membership price, which only makes sense. But then human nature stepped in and greed took hold.
The reality is that it wasn't greed that created the price of knowledge but rather the need to keep a lower class of people. Universities began to charge tuition because free education combined with the higher living standard, present following the second world war, produced an enlarge middle class and education inflation. Apparently education of the masses isn't profitable to all. Which leads to the root cause of the absurd prices. Who decided that educated masses and an enlarged middle class wasn't a good thing? If an enlarged middle class existed then it follows that the said middle class would either mean less poverty stricken people or less absurdly rich folks. As people who are fed up with these prices (Assumption- I'm not the only one am I?) we need to openly question these preposterous prices. Boycott this tainting of knowledge is what needs to come about. Openly and publicly defying this is the appropriate response and is imperative.
Rise up and preserve knowledge's priceless nature!Sadly this will never happen as society has fallen into the rut of unquestioning obedience. So for years students will go into debt for the sake of knowledge and the thirst to learn.
But that's the way its supposed to be creating a nation without an enlarged middle population,
educated public and full of debt stricken graduates.
Right?
Life as it should be is just so logical and straightforward.
-Joel
Musical Quote of the Day
My My My heart like a kick drum
My My My love like a voice
-Avett Brothers, Kick Drum Heart
