education

education
1. (education) (1097↑, 133↓)
Everyday, millions of children march to school with drudgery and resistance. As young children, they go in open-hearted and free -- at night, they imagine that their tiny hands can reach up and touch the birds. The entire world is a new place and the fascination of beauty never subsides. But as older adolescents leaving their high school, they go close-minded and bondaged -- at night, they drink themselves into passing out and talk about the most popular thing to come, under obligation. The boys worry about their sexual conquests. The girls worry about their sexual appearance. Both worry about being social in a society that has made a weakness of kindness and an insult of emotion. Such a great change occurs between those who enter school and those who leave it. Just think of the sheer idiocy of compulsary education. We threaten these children with imprisonment if they do not appear in class. Once in class, they spend their time either sleeping or completing tasks that are completely irrelevant to them. By giving them no option in their schooling, what have we taught them? The first lesson they learn is to detest learning, to hold unbridled sympathy for education. Take any man, put him in chains, and force him to recite poetry, or force him to play an instrument, or force him to farm the land -- and once he becomes a free man, do you think he will want to engage in that activity that was forced upon him? The scars on a slaves hands from working the fields, the memories of abuse of a house servant; given the right to do as they wish in the world, is it likely to think that they will return to that work which they were forced to do? And then consider schools. We force children to sit and overfeed them erroneous facts, faulty logic, damaged reasoning, concealed under the guise of "schooling." Once the mental faculties of these children are damaged, their heart grows an animosity towards learning, towards books, towards facts and knowledge. It is the greatest folly to make children hate learning, and the greatest danger to a real, living Democracy in any nation. Because when the Red Sox win a baseball game, five universities in the state of Massachussetts riot. But when the United States regime supports a South American dictator known for slaughtering his own people, it's a whisper lost in the wind. Our ignorance is their power. Real knowledge is acquired by learning what interests you, through reading, investigation, practice, or any other desirable method. To become intelligent, you must engage in activity with the idea that are you learning because you want to, because knowledge is a goal. The path to conformity varies greatly from this. First, you engage in nothing, but allow cultural standards and social obligations to control you. Second, the idea of learning is to memorize random, perhaps unrelated and blatant facts -- true or untrue -- so that they may be recited upon command. Third, the goal is not knowledge, but a passing grade; they learn to for the sake of knowledge, but rather for the sake of social acceptance. Take two children. Give the first freedom and liberty, give him a wealth of books and movies, give him teachers to aid him upon his request and a place that encourages art, creativity, and independence. Then take away the freedom and liberty of the second, require his presence in a classroom in front of a teacher, threaten him with a jail sentence if he does not go to his school. Give each of them ten or fifteen years, and check the development of each of them after this amount of time. The only forced to endure slavery may be able to stand in a lecture hall and he might be able to say to you, "George Washington was born in 1732 and died in 1799. In 1776, the Revolutionary War began where he acted as general. In 1783, it ended. In 1789, he was elected president a first time, and in 1792, he was elected president a second time." You are given dates and events, surely, it is true history. But take the child who was given freedom to do as he pleased, and he might be able to stand in a lecture hall and tell you, "In the sixteenth century, in Europe, a Spanish physician by the name of Michael Servetus was convicted of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church. Fleeing from his oppressors, he made it to Geneva, where the vindictive John Calvin had absolute authority. In earlier years, Servetus expressed his doubt on Calvin's protestant religion. Once captured by the authorities, Servetus was burned to death at the orders of John Calvin in 1533. They had him wear a hat of sulphur and used slow-burning wood, that the crowd could listen to screams for mercy for the duration of a half hour. One year after the death of this man, Calvin published a list of insults of his former enemy." Be a rebel. Because being a conformist means admitting that the parts of you that matter are already dead. But if that's the case, what does matter? The emotions that run rampant through our head, the thoughts that we tumble and toss over in our minds constantly -- sexual fantasies to memories of our friends and family, thoughts and ideas about our future, wishes and desires for our current life with those who are close to us. The idea of a living freedom, knowing that what you wish to do believe with your mind is unrestricted and what you wish to do with your body, so long as you harm none, is unlimited. Life matters to us because we make it matter; if we never told a lover we would miss them upon our departure for a long voyage, if we never told a family member that we dream of a time when oppression ended, if we never wrote a poem and hoped to give it to a friend whose face we haven't seen in years -- if we never cared about life, then life wouldn't matter. What matters is what we make matter. So in a few years, all the kids who graduate from high school will know that their grades never mattered, because even though so young, they already know that it won't be the grades they got that they think about upon their death bed. Twenty years ago the textbooks used in history class just began to cover some of the issues of the four hundred years of oppression of the African race in this country. Children who are forced into a school and forced to complete erroneous assignments learn only one thing: to hate education. I clearly demonstrated this truth earlier, but there is more to be learned from it. Take a slave. It could be a slave from any society, whether an African in colonial America or a Plebeian in the Roman Empire. For the entirety of their life, they labor. Their sweat, their tears, their blood, the biproducts of their toil seep into the ground and their garments. All they produce goes to the one who did not labor (and alas, our modern Capitalist system has managed to recreate these conditions). Inside every slave, there will be a growing hatred of their activity as a servant, a farmer, a manufacturer -- they will learn to hate what has been forced upon them without their consent. But inside some of them, there will be the kindling of hope for a dream. One day, they will hope to produce for themselves, knowing that what their hands reap will be what fills their stomach, and not the stomach belonging to idle hands. So, too, it is with our compulsary education. The more we are forced into schools and our minds filled with useless facts, the stronger our thirst grows for real education, for real knowledge. Few are like this, but we exist. Others simply remain politically and emotionally sedated, as the focus of their mind is the next test or the next prom, and not children enslaved in southeast asia or the meaning of life. To every student who must endure the excuse of an education system that we have, I can only offer these words of hope... Educate yourself, not with school teachers, but with the books they wanted to ban. Teach yourself, learn, grow, and develop. Learn that the greatest asset education can offer is that of independence. "If the teacher happens to be a man of sense, it must be an unpleasant thing to him to be conscious, while he is lecturing his students, that he is either speaking or reading nonsense, or what is very little better than nonsense. [...] "The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave to him, as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability. It seems to presume perfect wisdom and virtue in the one order, and the greatest weakness and folly in the other." -- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book 5, Chapter I, Part 3, Article II. Life matters to us because we make it matter. Be a rebel

America and its school systems. America's folly of education.

2. (education) (494↑, 127↓)
We dont need no education, We don't need no thought control, No dark sarcasam in the classroom, Teacher leave those kids alone... Hey, Teachers\! Leave them kids alone\!

All in all, you're just another brick in the wall...

3. (education) (271↑, 57↓)
What I have a serious lack of.

Don't let your schooling get in the way of your education.

Author: Bulletproof Marshmallow http://education.urbanup.com/315397
4. (education) (281↑, 77↓)
A way to keep children busy and to deprive them of a childhood

Why the heck to i have to have an education?

5. (education) (247↑, 62↓)
A system of imposed ignorance

Noam Chompsky says that education is a system of imposed ignorance and i happen to agree

6. (education) (201↑, 70↓)
1:An excuse to make life more misrable by the goverment 2:What most of us need 3:An excuse by the goverment to enslave us in a 8-12 hour prison with a bitchy dictating teacher to teach us crap and mistreat us so we are misrable, become barbarians, and so they can brain control us so we become "Sufisticated" people.

Enslavement and embarrasment to the children labor laws. They don't even pay us when we are kids and in school.

7. (education) (168↑, 44↓)
an illusion

I staggered towards the oasis in the desert, but it turned out to be an education, and i died of thirst.

8. (education) (89↑, 6↓)
-kindergarten -pre-school -primary school -high school -college/university -apply for a money based job. WORK WORK WORK 'till ya die.

Bloody economics these days. Life is based on money, first you must get education, find and get a job that earns lots of money, reproduce maybe, get some pleasure along the way, help the fucking society grow. And if you can't deal with it, you don't get too far until you commit suicide.

9. (education) (113↑, 33↓)
Something that schooling gets in the way of.

Don't let your schooling get in the way of a good education

10. (Education) (81↑, 7↓)
Upside: A piece of paper you wave around to get free stuff and a the right to make fun of stupid people. Downside: You have to spend 18 years of your life taking it up your ass from school to get a lousy piece of paper.

"I demand a raise because I have an education\!" "Why do I have to come to school anyway?" "For a piece of paper, now bend over."

11. (education) (88↑, 32↓)
Not something you can easily get here in the good 'ol USA.

We can't get a proper education here in the U.S. because all of the schools are grossly underfunded, the teachers underpaid, and everything we're taught nothing but lies painted rose.

12. (education) (79↑, 29↓)
1) Something that parental and governmental fuck-tards would like you to believe holds up the world and fills it with rainbows and sunshine, but in fact just fills your mind with crap and your limited time on Earth with compulsory busywork. Straight-edged brainwash victims in AP classes also want you to buy this shit. 2) These twatfaces will argue that people rebelling against such an oppressive way of life must be really stupid. These are usually the same scumbuckets who can't appreciate good music and spit upon everything that it stands for. What's that? Why, it's the stench of hypocrisy.

Straight-edged kid: A good education is the foundation of a well-balanced, successful life. Me: Great. Then go calculate the radius of your asshole.

13. (education) (39↑, 18↓)
Education is what the current UK government and its puppet-masters want only the children of the rich to have. Britain is in very real danger of ending up with an entire generation of uneducated underclass. The middle school I went to years ago was practically a borstal, where bullying went ignored, where teachers either blamed the victims or carried on smoking their cigarettes. The deputy headmaster was a stroppy, loud-mouthed oaf and the headmistress was a poisonous old witch who threw people out of assembly for not standing up quickly enough. People were reprimanded for being late, but I can remember being sent to see the deputy head who told me off (naughty boy, arriving late indeed, etc) and then arriving at class for registration to find out the teacher hadn't arrived yet. Said teacher was forever late, and we had to stand outside the building waiting for her to arrive to let us into class no matter what the weather was like. Once she turned up, tardy as ever, saying "you're late, class". In another school everyone was called to assambly once to be given a stern lecture about bad language. That had real moral authority, considering more than one teacher used the f-word in front of the class. I don't know quite what those schools are like by now. I shudder to think. I know of teachers who say how impossible to teach anyone. What with the 'rights without responsibility' culture which goes hand-in-hand with New Labour, no teacher is allowed to reprimand any bully or disruptive individual. So I'm sure school teaches us. It teaches us that authority is a case of hypocrisy and double-standards, that the guilty are rewarded and the innocent made to feel they are worthless scum. These days standards have fallen to the point where this country's education system is the laughing stock of the world. Once it was the envy of everyone. People with the money to do so all used to come to the UK to be educated in our universities. Now, thanks to a succession of useless governments, everyone in the UK with the money to do so goes abroad to university. Tony Bliar and his masters con the public into thinking the UK's children are educated by making exams so easy a 5-year-old can attain a dozen A-stars (despite calling for education to be down to the lowest denominator, New Labour ministers send their own children to expensive private schools). And only the rich can go to university. Anyone else will find themselves in debt for the rest of their natural lives.

"Here's a piece of education. This school was named after a lord mayor". "Good grief. If he was alive today he'd sue the place for every penny. Fancy having your name associated with a dump like that".

14. (education) (45↑, 24↓)
Activity that can interfere with your time passed on drug or games.

If the school is interfering with your drug, beer or games activities, just drop it\!

15. (education) (36↑, 21↓)
Where you go as a vulnerable child to be brainwashed by the state because your unshaped minds are moldable and your minds are susceptible to their lies.

Just say no to education and drugs.Just drop out and educate yourself so that you can be an indivudal instead of a mind controlled zombie who's totally controlled by the state. Otherwise you'll just end up another tattooed,pierced,inbred,pie-fucker\!

Author: Freemasons are Satanists http://education.urbanup.com/1111337
16. (education) (32↑, 19↓)
A trait that Karl Rove fears greatly. The amount of education one possesses is inversely proportional to the enthusiasm of the Republican party at the prospect of him/her voting.

"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans...unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing." - [Karl Rove]

17. (education) (31↑, 20↓)
Education, as coined by dead prez "They schools can't teach us shit My people need freedom, we tryin to get all we can get All my high school teachers can suck my dick Tellin me white man lies straight bullshit They schools aint teachin us, what we need to know to survive They schools don't educate, all they teach the people is lies"

"Man that education shit is a joke The same people who control the school system control The prison system, and the whole social system Ever since slavery, nawsayin?"

18. (education) (26↑, 20↓)
1)Positive Connotation: The state of getting and or becoming "educated" therefore giving you the chance to succeed in life. At it's most basic level, in the US, graduating from high school, or getting a General Equivalent Diploma. (Hey, if you don't have a diploma, eventually even Micky D's won't want you anymore if more qualified applicants show up. And if you can't read, write, or do basic artithmetic, you can't do a lot of things.) However, in the United States, most "educated" people have been to a two or four year college and have some form of degree, thus making them elgible for at least slightly better jobs. For this reason, many adults tell their kids to stay in school and get a good education, so they can be sucessful in life. 2)Negative connotation: A system run by the state that screws you over, where you learn nothing of importance and must take tons of standardized tests while enduring a dumbed-down curriculum, the main focus being to keep the children just educated enough that they can grow up, take jobs, and become cogs in the wheels of the system, in what is inevitably an "assembly line" approach. In short, the Man's way of stifiling young creativity and brainwashing the youth of the nation.

1) "The reason I know the meaning of the word 'connotation' is because I go to school and get myself an education." 2) "Kids in the US often hate the education system, and feel it stifles their individuality and creativity. However, in third world nations, many kids would love the chance to go to school, even if it's crappy and state-run, because they're stuck working all day without minimum wage."

19. (education) (7↑, 3↓)
see [brainwash]

education is a way to force young folks into accepting the system....

20. (Education) (4↑, 2↓)
Often the end result of a process of theoretical book-learning (which may yield nothing more than a collection of trivia about an obscure subject), used as an excuse to look down on others who may actually be better-adjusted, better-informed, more experienced individuals.

The college graduate knew he was superior to everyone else because he had completed his Education: a master's degree in Ancient Mesopotamian Pottery.

Author: UrbanDictionaryPapa http://education.urbanup.com/5151123
21. (Education) (14↑, 26↓)
Something that is SERIOUSLY taken for granted here in America. Seriously, all you gotta do is go in with an open mind/positive attitude, do your work (try hard, and if you don't understand it, simply ask for help), pass the tests, and get your diploma. It's free, and it's worth it.

Kids in third-world countries would KILL to get an education, and here we are, acting like spoiled brats by thinking we gotta "conform to the system".

22. (education) (31↑, 48↓)
Something those on this site have never heard of before.

Stop posting on this site and get yourselves and education.

Author: the voice of reason http://education.urbanup.com/107541
23. (education) (32↑, 62↓)
Dude. Fuck you all. Education may not be the "source of infinite happiness", or the most important thing in the god damn world, but you need it to survive in life, unless you want to take cock in your ass when you grow up. Education is important for when you get older, if you want to make money. btw, and you complain and say "Oh\! 18 years of shit\!" Ok, now you try starting school when you're 15, and trying to get a high-paying normal job (doctor, lawyer, etc) by the time you're 30. You have to start it early so you can get all that crap in your head before it's too late.

Someone: Oh, I'll become a NFL player\! Just you see\! Fuck education\! Me: ....sure. *7 years later* Someone: Hey, lookin for a good time? Me: ....sure.

Author: you're all fuckin retarded. http://education.urbanup.com/1990469
24. (education) (21↑, 52↓)
- Something we all need. - Something we all hate. - Something you won't succeed in life without (unless a "career" in retail, which caps off at store manager, is fine for you) - Something we should not try to push on the others (like we do in US by giving double time to ADD/ADHD kids - lol ADD), because we do need people to bag our groceries and clean our bathrooms.

- Hey maaan, I hate school - I'ma go smoke weed and be retarded instead. - Sure, w/e, just don't talk to me. Employer for a good job: So what kind of education did you receive in your life, Mr.Whiny-ass loser? Whiny-ass loser: Ugh... edjookaishon? Employer: Next\!

Author: Non-conformist who went through school http://education.urbanup.com/1709188
25. (education) (24↑, 55↓)
Something that one should receive to realize that America is a decent country. Also something that one should receive to live a good life. Oh sure, it's hellish, but it will serve you well in the long run. ^_\education this I know for a fact.

"You hate America? Sheesh get an education\!" -me

26. (education) (21↑, 54↓)
Learning meaningful stuff while you're in school

"Say no to drugs, stay in school and get a good education." Nancy Reagan's 1985 Anti-Drug campaign.

27. (education) (5↑, 50↓)
If you have to search this up, you lack education.

"Billy searched up Education on Urban Dictitonary." "Wow, he is fugly"

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Last updated: 2012.02.29

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