One might think that the highest ambition of schooling is the search for truth, which would certainly make sense, but in actuality, it seems that when it comes to schooling, there is less emphasis on questioning authority, or of examining history, and more emphasis placed upon students that they should just conform to whatever narrative has been structured for them to memorize and to accept. To live thereby in a society in which nothing of substance is ever questioned or examined is to live in a society in which obedience supersedes the search for truth, and in a construct such as that, society is the lesser for it.
Each of us has been gifted with a mind, that should be utilized to its fullest extent, of which, one of the purposes of thinking is to examine what we have been taught or are being taught to see why this is being accepted as true, which thereupon permits us to know through such examination whether that information propagated is or is not factual. After all, while we cannot examine or question everything, we have a duty to ourselves and the society that we are a member of, to get beyond simply obedience, to question that which should be questioned, because not everything taught is the whole truth and nothing but the truth, for it could be something inimical to truth, itself.
Look, it has to be said, that those who pursue a false agenda under the misimpression that it is true, are on a pathway that will not permit them to know the truth, for that pathway has already been averted. This is why, we must do our homework, so that we can not only keep other people in check, but also because it is necessary in order for us, to know for a certainty that what we are doing, actually serves a good and higher purpose, as opposed to believing that it does, though it does not, of which, because having failed to properly examined such, thoroughly, truth has escaped us.
The greatest crimes which are committed by humankind are done by those who, for whatever reason, believe in what they believe, because they have been told to believe so, but have not themselves bothered to question what should be questioned. Indeed, this is what many a corporation or government desires from those that they consider to be their minions, which is to obey their dictates, which permits the machine to operate at a much higher efficiency, since there isn’t any pushback, even though, if truth be known, there would for a certainty be pushback.
In life, we are responsible for our actions, and if we don’t trouble ourselves as to whether our actions are right or wrong, that puts us into a rather vulnerable position, in which, we are doing what we do, because we have been told to do it or believe in it, without having done our due diligence, which is the least that we owe our fellow society members, and the least that we owe our soul, which is our responsibility to answer for, come what may.