[Published Paper] Identification – The Essence of Education
Published July 2024
in Volume 22 – Number 7 of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
written by Jeremy Horne PhD
We use the word “education,” often conflated with “training,” when both more accurately fall under the broader category of “schooling.” Education exists because of training and, conversely, obeys the most fundamental law—the unity of opposites. Yet an “educated” person is often set apart from the perceived “unwashed masses,” whose being is not so distantly removed from our primate ancestors, dragging their knuckles across the terrain. Trainees are expected to obey the commands of the educated. Without social context, “education” becomes a hollow term, a word stripped of meaning. An apparent paradox in the United States is the condition of its school system, which consistently produces graduates, only half of whom can read beyond the eighth-grade level. Our so-called “education,” coupled with cultural hubris, has managed to bring the much-vaunted Homo sapiens sapiens to the brink of extinction. Driving this crisis, more than any single policy or ideology, is disordered personal identity. The absence of real education is to blame, despite our species’ lofty “sapiens” designation. LINK TO FULL TEXT