Knowledge is a privilege.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge is revolution.
Knowledge is rebellion.
Knowledge is carnage.
To render anyone powerless, you don't need to cut off their limbs or take their ability to write or torture their intestines out. All you need to do is snatch their source of knowledge. When you take their source of knowledge, they will not have information. They will not be literate. They will not have the ability to think. They will not have the ability to believe. Their ability to be their own person. And once that is gone, what are they left with? Education is a privilege. It builds you into an independent person who knows what's wrong and what's right. It arms you with the tools to navigate the world. To be educated is to be informed. To be educated is to be a better person. To be educated is to know how to choose for the worse and for the better. As Plato once said,
“The penalty to declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself,”
And how do people know how to rule? They learn. Through education. Knowledge. Because, knowing is everything.
Imagine a young bird. So full of life, and so so full of possibilities. It can soar high in the sky and fly across the plains and the hills and over the lakes and so much more. Now if you keep the flying bird in a cage, you’re taking away its freedom. And the bird knows it because they’ve experienced the highs in the great skies. But what if it had never known that freedom? On the other hand, imagine another young bird. You clipped away its wings from the moment it was born. Will it ever touch the sky? Will it ever know how to fly? Will it ever know what it is to fly? It won't. Similarly, when you’re educated you know your possibilities. You know your limits. You know how high you can soar and how you’re limitless. But when you’re uneducated, you’ve never been shown those skies. When you clip away your wings from the moment you're born, do you even in your slightest believe that you'll experience the world as you should? As it is your right? If you're not educated, will you even know what is a right?
We as humans are all born with the same needs and necessities. We all have our aspirations and desires. We all have the innate feeling of being known, and remembered. And no matter how terrible of a person you’re, even once in your life you wish to do something for the benefit of your people. The world is your people. And how do you achieve things normally? By being informed. By knowing. By being educated.But, unfortunately, education today is no longer a right; it's a privilege. The same system our ancestors worked so hard to remove. It is everybody's birthright to have equal opportunities. You can change the world, only if you wish to. Some people don’t want you to know this. There are some people who don't advocate for education. This is why. Because when you know, you know. And when you know, you realize that knowledge is power. And to render anyone powerless, just snatch away their source of knowledge.
-shatakshi
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