• Education forcibly molds people to become players in the global economy.
  -The idea of poverty is created by large capitalist powers to justify using globalism ideologies to infiltrate “third world” areas, labeling them as such, and then using education to mold people to fit into an industrialized economy. We as Western powers do not have the right to barge into these “struggling” countries and force our ways of life upon them nor is this plan working . President Evo Morales of Bolivia sees the evil first hand: “Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment” [1. Good Reads. William Wordsworth Quotes. 2013. Web.] 
• Education is a cultural eraser.
  -Children are leaving their parents and homes to go to school and later get jobs in the cities. In doing this, they leave behind their cultural traditions that they would uphold if they remained at home. Rather than promotion cultural tradition, individualism becomes the new focus. “If have lost your history, you have lost everything.” [2. Good Reads. William Wordsworth Quotes. 2013. Web.]
• What has education done to us?
  -We should reconsider our view of what education does for our own society. School is mandatory and consumes a large chunk of our entire lives. We are pressured into moving onto higher education so we can become specialized in certain skills. Specialization is the key to the global industry: creating separate sectors filled by a large, “educated” work force to mass produce our goods, technologies, and ideas. Philosopher Mokokoma Mokhonoana claims “ “A specialist’s mind is a slave to his specialization.” [3. Good Reads. Quotes About Specialization: Mokokoma Mokhonoana. 2013. Web]
• Education is tearing us away from nature.
  -What could we be doing with all the time that we spend sitting in walled rooms, staring at a scribbled board, listening to the drone of a paid speaker? If life were like it once was before structured educational practice, we would likely be spending that time outside. Consider the connections and the values that our ancestors had.. that we lose everyday. In the words of romantic poet William Wordsworth, “ Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher”. [4. Padgett Tim, T. P.  A Voice On the Left. Time Magazine. 2006. Web.]

  

  

  
  
• Education isn’t in a classroom. 
  – I can say with absolute confidence that I’ve learned so much more outside the classroom, surrounded by the outside world, than I ever had in the classroom. Personal cultural interaction will teach a person much more than a textbook could ever. Before our structured Western idea of education, “traditional forms of education fostered stability” [1.Carol Black. (Director) Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden. 2010. Web.] It was direct experience motivated by survival, spirituality, and togetherness.

These are just five theories that look at the education we partake in and support in a negative light. There are a multitude of reasons why education is a positive and powerful tool for good advancement and change. All I’m asking is for you to rethink the one-sided view of education as a flawless and magnificent gem that will fuel world progression. It may be fueling progression, but is it progression in the right direction?