The Negative Side Effects of the Education and its Impacts to Social Change

Introduction

Education and social change is really broad spectrum of opinions which can be viewed from many points of view. I was mainly interested in one specific side of the education which is the negative side and negative side effects of education. Therefore, I am going to focus on education as a main tool to manipulate and gain benefits.

Does society shape education or education shapes society?

I am going to start with an example of the post-Communists Czech Republic. Actually, I did not live during this period however I can say, I am still affected by this period of time and I know a lot. We have learned about this regime in school and what is more important, we have heard many true stories from our parents and relatives.

Before I will start I have to explain: what does the word society mean for me. Society is some aggregate of people who are living together in certain place, for instance, in a state. Thus, all the people living in a state form certain society.

Based on the meaning of society and on the example of post-Communist country, the answer is that education shapes society. The explanation is following: just communist elite with a centre in USSR had a power to establish the rules. And one of the first change what they did, was, they intervened in education. They changed education to their advantage to benefit from that. For instance, the authors, who wrote their books about anything what was against regime, were persecuted and their books could not be published. The reason is that they wrote either about better systems outside the regime or about the defects of communist regime. These authors had written the actual truth. In schools, they mainly taught about the best way of Communists and if they talked for examp...

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...le tool how to manipulate, too. Integral part is also subjectivity, competition and many other latent functions which can produce plenty of negative impacts on society.

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