Education is the real antidote to authoritarianism.
When people learn to read, think, question, and imagine different worlds, they stop being easy to control.
You don’t get rich with culture, but it makes you free.
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Its a big part, for sure. I think another big part is real property rights. Unfortunately no one in the west has real property rights anymore, and as the state takes more power and democracy destroys rights, the appeal of authoritarianism grows.
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“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think” - Albert Einstein
I completely agree with you but with a caveat. A lot of college education these days is the memorization of facts. Memorizing facts is another form of propaganda.
I think that education should train people to critically think for themselves. This I think is the core basis of democracy. Without this core, democracy stops working as intended.
How about educating people to be authoritarian? That's what governments have been doing for many years in public schools.
Education is only a service. Not an antidote to anything