Albert Einstein
1949
This crippling of individuals I consider
the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this
evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who
is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future
career. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils,
namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by a
educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an
economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized
in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs
of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to
work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman and child. The
education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities,
would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in
place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.
I agree that somehow society puts education on the pedestal, that learners would looked up on it; but Einstein's words are true to me in a sense that education should consider the rights of individuals and the needs of the society.
TumugonBurahin