There’s a new Tricycle article titled Education and Work that call outs the false messages we receive from both educations systems and corporate bureaucracy. Here are a few of the very provocative points made:

• Education turns human beings into commodities.
• People should exist not as interchangeable parts of an economic machine
• When people are alone, they’re not so bad. However, when a group forms, paralysis occurs; people become totally foolish and cannot distinguish good from bad. 
• People live relying on groups and organizations, drifting along in them like floating weeds without roots.
• “An organization man is an employee, especially of a large corporation, who has adapted so completely to what is expected in attitudes, ideas, behavior, etc., by the corporation as to have lost a sense of personal identity or independence.”
• Suffering arises from our narrow concept of I, combined with our insatiable greed.

Check out the full article at the link provided below. I’d enjoy hearing your thoughts on this assessments of modern-day society.

Education and Work