THE AGE OF PASSIVE ACTIONS

We live in a world where a huge portion of the population attend schools and various academic institutions, and this by theory it means we're exposed to knowledge. Even you who's reading this article is a student or once a student at an academic institution. Well, isn't this supposed to mean that we shouldn't act like illiterates or that the world would be a much more better place?, well, sadly, it's quite the contrary.

Schools were created to instill knowledge and value to members of the society while polishing them to realise the best of what they posses to make the society much more better. Schools used to be where people learn from teachers and are been exposed to knowledge on how to bring out the best in themselves. That's why centuries ago, individuals who were educated were considered to be the very best individuals to take the society to another level.

As it is now, schools still teach, but they don't mostly teach one how to express talents or skills, rather, they teach you how to follow the rules to pass the exams and earn yourself a certification, which has ushered in an 'Age of Passive Actions'. To be passive is to show dormancy and to lack creativity and it's some times because one is strict to follow the rules and believes that what society attaches as success is what should be followed. This creates medicores.

Today, many people don't go to school to improve their talents or desire to explore academic archives to improve themselves intellectually. To them, it's a passive process of getting a certificate and getting a job that pays. Talent has been traded for mediocrity and sadly, schools (Secondary schools and Universities in Particular) appreciate students who can memorise what the teacher says and follow the rules of academics religiously. This doesn't sound harmful but it is. 

Many schools and teachers don't appreciate critical thinkers or creatives, rather, this students who go beyond the class in terms of thinking are scorned, mocked and regarded as a threat to the system, they barely have mates who befriend them and when they eventually have someone after them, it's normally a manipulative mediocre who wants to manipulate them into getting some basic academic tips.

A study was done in 1966 called 'Coleman Report' and it showed that many schools were emphasising on memorisation rather than carefully impacting life values and improving students creative skills. This study proved that such schools end up producing people who are mere tools in offices and labor markets and that students who pass through this system would probably end up not been rooted in a positive life philosophy or skill. Unfortunately for us in this age, most schools are now like that.

Government and the elitist who facilitate activities in the society love the facts that our academic institutions produce such passive students. Because it means that we now have a society who think they are intellectuals while they are puppets who desire to earn a certificate and are been brainwashed to be obsessed with financial security while they don't improve their skills and get creative. 

A famous national dictator in Spain, in the person of José Antonio Premo de Rivera once said; 'I need a nation of workers, not a nation of thinkers'. This statement sadly shows how most leaders in nations across the world are okay with a terrible education system that would produce mediocres rather than creatives who are revolutionary. Nigeria is prime example and it's sad.

So, in conclusion, you have seen how I cited the ways in which schools don't appreciate creativity but passive students who strictly follow the rules no matter how uncreative they are. It's sad that it's happening but you should remember that most people in power love that it's happening, so do your self a favor and escape the matrix. Ask more questions to know more, explore more academic archives to experience knowledge that's beyond the class room and propaganda. These would help to bring out the creative in you and help you stand out in an age of 'Passive Actions'