Removing educational corruption
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To some extent education has some impact on corruption. But corrupt people aren’t necessarily uneducated. That is because education today doesn’t teach people about human nature. It teaches about knowledge, how to accumulate it, and how to organize it according to various disciplines (math, physics, history, literature). It fails to teach people about the primary “substance” we’re made of, namely, a “desire to receive pleasure”. Desire for food, sex, family, money, honor, power, and knowledge. All of us have desires for all those things and sub-desires of those fulfillments and they work in each one like a music EQ. Each of us is unique in the makeup of desires we have in us.
Some of the features of this substance, this “desire to receive pleasure” are that once it obtained fulfillment, it begins to feel empty and desires more of that same fulfillment to feel the same level of satisfaction. Another feature is that it is relative and measures fulfillment compared to other people around it. Yet another one is that desires are a product of the environment where they live and grow, not the product of schools and academic institutions.
Taken together, it’s easy to see why people with a natural propensity toward money and/or honor and/or power, who live in a society that pretty much worships money and/or honor and/or power, who constantly judge their level of fulfillment compared to others around them and who can never feel satisfied with any amount of money/honor/power they obtain, will ultimately turn to corrupt behavior in order to obtain more money/honor/power.
This is the kind of education we need to give our children, with example, and exercises and together with that the tools to create an environment, a society, where our “desire to receive pleasure” is not eradicated but rather used in a way that is beneficial to that environment/society. Where giving is rewarded more than taking.