Education is the ability to examine and analyze facts and thoughts that have made an impact on society, not to create such thoughts. When learning, we are reiterating things that have been said before. Education and wisdom are two seperate and very different aspects of the human mind.
When being taught in a classroom setting, students are taught what is considered proper and correct. With that being said, it is obvious that those who educate the students have done the thinking for them. By showing a child "the difference in right and wrong," professors, parents, and mentors are doing nothing but providing their own opinions to the child and not asking him or her to have an open mind, to think for himself or herself. In that sense, teachers are providing the thoughts of mainstream society for students to absorb without a passing glance of their own unique ideas.
Contrary to popular belief, open-mindedness can not be taught; it must be developed by the person alone. Though the ideas of keeping an open mind can be taught, would that not mean that, by accepting another's ideas on open-mindedness, the person has just been closed minded to any other views on the matter? Clearly, to call education open-mindedness would be a terrible mistake. To be open-minded is to be skeptical, to make your own way, to understand and accept (but not be forced to adopt) the views of others, and to fight unjust conformity. Education is a type of conformity. If all students believe the same things to be true, then all students have just fallen into the trap of the conformists.
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