Educating People with a Scoop

In this article, we will discuss Kerem Aydin’s metaphorical expression, ‘educating people with a scoop’.

First, we need to establish that control over the individual doesn’t necessarily have to be exerted by a direct authority. The ‘be yourself’ philosophy, promoted by liberalism and, over the last 20 years, by globalism, forcibly fits people into molds. Under the illusion of ‘being oneself,’ it compels people to conform, much like traditional education. This bears no resemblance to individuals educating themselves based on their intrinsic motivations, according to their needs, or using resources they have personally selected. It’s just that the ‘scoop’ of traditional education models has become an invisible one. I will return to this point later.

For years, people held education sacred for their own survival, for personal advancement, or to sustain their nations. No matter how burdensome this was for the individual, the lack of adequate methods compelled people to endure it. In our current times, however, educating a person by having them passively receive form and resources from others has become akin to scooping up a clump of earth and dumping it elsewhere. On one side, there are those waiting to be educated (never an individual, always a mass), and on the other, the ‘educated’. Now, let’s pause and think for a minute. How can you claim to have provided education by scooping up a mass of people from one place and dumping them in another? You have merely relocated them. And what about the individual grains the people ignored each time the scoop transfers earth from one place to another?

So, does this situation change whether that scoop is visible or invisible? No, of course not. As the years pass, we will simply see a proliferation of people who are largely identical, demonstrating no real superiority over one another, having been either directly oppressed or crushed under the illusion of ‘their own choice’.

The sole solution to this lies in the technological tools available in our current era, over which the individual has full control. Because these tools offer individuals answers born purely from their own curiosity, free from human gatekeepers, devoid of authority, unbound by time constraints, and almost unconditionally.

Stay tuned for more articles! May you experience the liberating education that technology brings!

Kerem Aydin
whiskerByte team