Essay (week 11)

Education is a free right which has many purposes which depends on the perspective of each one. Some people believe that state does not make a right use of education. The main reason to believe it, is that education wants people to be obedient, cooperative and dogmatic. In this way, most of intellectual and the average citizen consider that this powerful structure of the society should promote other human- being characteristics. For instance, imagination and creativity, at the same time that make students independent and free.

Nowadays, it is a fact that teaching is focused on passing test. Students usually absorb materials and information with the purpose of repeating them in the exams. They just study hard to pass the exam, and frequently learning by heart without understanding the information. Moreover, sometimes students get confused, since they are educated into being cooperative working in groups, but finally they have to compete in the capitalist society market, by being best than the others.

On the other hand, new technologies are incredibly useful to search, inform and communicate us. However, some people become puppets of the dogmatism. Therefore, they do not question if what they are reading are reliable or not. They often just copy, and sometimes without understand it. For this reason, we have to know how to evaluate and interpret the information that we are given. In addition, these advances in technology, especially Internet, can be a great way to improve our creativity, originality… To make a difference from the others, letting our imagination fly.

If education were turned into a structure based on the progress of the human-being, with a sense of distinctiveness, this powerful organisation would promote the imagination. Furthermore, it would allow people to act freely and be independent. The highest goal in life should be work in the job of our dreams, that one which makes us feel alive. Whereas the worst mistake that some people make is to work in a job that do not interest us, or even that we hate. Most of students are in a course or degree that it really does not interest them. This situation can be provoked because of lack of information or due to the fact that these studies are more demanded or better-paid. 

Education should encourage creative exploration. In this way, students would not change into clones, just absorbing materials such as sponges. In addition, they should be taught to be more competitive in the same way they are taught to work in groups and to help the others. Education is a free right which we should make a right use of it with the purpose of teach them to be different, unique and above all, to know who to defend what they want and to achieve it.