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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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 Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:15 am Post subject: Re: Desire to learn low among Korean adults |
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| KimchiNinja wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
| So then, hell it is and shall ever be. |
Maybe, but the masses are happy being uneducated, and the educated are happy to exploit the masses, so it all works out...I guess.  |
How do you know they're happy? |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2014 1:21 am Post subject: Re: Desire to learn low among Korean adults |
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| atwood wrote: |
| KimchiNinja wrote: |
| atwood wrote: |
| So then, hell it is and shall ever be. |
Maybe, but the masses are happy being uneducated, and the educated are happy to exploit the masses, so it all works out...I guess. |
How do you know they're happy? |
Yeah, maybe they aren't happy.
But they are aggressively ignorant, which leads one to believe they enjoy and want to maintain this ignorant state... |
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cdninkorea
Joined: 27 Jan 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2014 2:18 am Post subject: Re: Desire to learn low among Korean adults |
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| KimchiNinja wrote: |
It's how things are.
There will always be individuals who have "the ability to look at problems from a novel point of view and solve them", those are the leaders of society. But the population has avg intelligence by definition, thus does not have extraordinary curiosity or desire to learn.
The masses have to be led, told what to do. I guess govt could poke them and try to make them want to learn, seems unrealistic to expect any positive result though. |
Why not just let them (us) be free? |
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Chaparrastique
Joined: 01 Jan 2014
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| Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2014 3:05 am Post subject: Re: Desire to learn low among Korean adults |
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| KimchiNinja wrote: |
There will always be individuals who have "the ability to look at problems from a novel point of view and solve them", those are the leaders of society. |
Not in Korea.
This society has systematically crushed ingenuity, individuality, free thought, difference and unconformity for millennia.
Any upstart with too much intelligence usually gets eliminated as a dangerous threat to the hierarchy. Leader ajosshi doesn't like being challenged. Even having an opinion is frowned on. This society is based on inflexible ritualistic hierarchy. Individuals have never had much control over their own lives here.
Hence there has been no real inclination to learn and educate in real terms. Advancement and status is not based on individual merit but on politics and clannish/ family alliances. |
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