How can education change the world?

Question from the Internet:

“How would our world/society look like if every single person was highly educated?”

Education in itself does not make a better world. After all, usually, it is the most educated people who start controlling, manipulating and exploiting the “less educated” masses — as we can see from history and in our own societies.

Education itself is important, as to what education people receive and how many people the right education can reach.

And here we are totally lacking.

Since the industrial revolution, the education people have been employing remained the same: creating good producers and consumers of goods and services and identifying consumption as the purpose of human life.

Thus “education” is about uploading the necessary information for people to produce goods in different professions while the media and entertainment industry does the rest, telling people what and how much to consume of those goods. Our worth to society is measured only through this production/consumption activity.

At the same time, we do not know why we are born; or what we are supposed to do with our lives; we do not even know why we are called “human beings”. Most importantly, we have absolutely no clue how to survive in a globally integrated and totally interdependent world when we only care about ourselves and that little segment of reality we perceive through our inherently egocentric and subjective worldview.

Suppose we want to see that world changing for the better. In that case, we ourselves have to start changing — with the help of the right, purposeful and practical educational method that can reach each and every person on Earth according to their needs, situations and abilities.