{"id":6566,"date":"2020-09-09T09:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/?p=6566"},"modified":"2020-09-11T00:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T04:22:56","slug":"hwaet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aderack.com\/journal\/2020\/09\/hwaet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hw\u00c3\u00a6t"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Formal education, within the system we&#8217;ve built, isn&#8217;t about enlightenment. It&#8217;s about initiation. All that Greek stuff on-campus in higher education is the social dimension of the enforced Pledge of Allegiance at lower levels. The structure is part of a mechanism to pass the rites of supremacy to a level of society. That&#8217;s why our schools and universities are  so ineffective at doing what they claim to. Knowledge, wisdom\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat&#8217;s not the point. 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