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Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 4 / 2009 (533)

Anti-system education

„Man is always in need of his fellows’ help and it would be to no avail for him to depend solely on their benevolence.

Adam Smith

“From a political point of view, the modern world in which we live today
was born together with the first atomic blasts.

Hannah Arendt”


Mankind cannot overcome its condition because for thousands of years the educational pattern has not changed. Strangely though, the perception is reversed: everybody is taught to believe in the equal chance to success; all the while, through public order (a sort of cord which envelopes everyone's power of understanding) we convey that it is normal, meaning natural, for the distinguished to lead. These people hold an ancient aura either coming from virtue -which would be somewhat natural - but also from elitist conventions, reserved for the 1 or 2 percent of the population, insistently promoted by propagandistic institutions.

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