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Third chapter «Learning»

Learning and teaching must not merely involve regular syllabuses and specific materials that young people are constrained to learn during specified hours, using printed books and copybooks. This kind of education that prevails throughout the world today is against freedom. Mandatory education which countries of the world are proud to enforce on their youth is a coercive education that suppresses freedom. It forcibly stunts human talents and forcibly directs human choice. It is tyrannical and destroys freedom because it deprives human beings of free choice, and hinders brilliance and creativity. To force a human being to learn a particular curriculum is dictatorial. To impose specific teaching materials is a dictatorial act. Mandatory learning and regular systematic teaching are in reality a forced stultification of the masses. All countries that determine teaching courses through the implementation of formal curriculums, imposed on their people, formally determining the material and knowledge to be taught, are countries that oppress their citizens. A worldwide cultural revolution must destroy all the prevalent educational systems in the world to liberate the human mentality from syllabuses that nurture fanaticism and the deliberate reshaping of man’s concepts, his tastes and mentality. This is not - as it may seem to superficial readers - a call to close down educational institutions. Nor is it an invitation to people to shun education. On the contrary, it is a call for society to provide all kinds of education and give the people the freedom of selecting the discipline of their choice. Educational institutions need the capacity to provide all branches of knowledge; otherwise man’s liberty is restricted and he will be forced to learn only the disciples available and thus be deprived of his natural right. Societies that restrict knowledge or monopolize knowledge are reactionary, and ardent adherents of ignorance as well as being hostile to freedom. Societies that monopolize religious knowledge are also reactionary, ardent adherents of ignorance and hostile to freedom. Likewise societies that distort the religious, civilizations and behaviour of others in the process of teaching those subjects, are also fanatic, reactionary and hostile to freedom. Societies that prohibit materialistic knowledge are likewise reactionary societies, biased towards ignorance and hostile to freedom. Knowledge is a natural right for every human being and no one has the right to deprive others of knowledge, unless a person has committed an act that deprives him or her of that right. Ignorance will come to an end when everything is presented as it really is; it will end when knowledge about everything is made available to every human being in a suitable way.

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