Dissecting The Myths Of Merit And Meritocracy PART-VI

Merit, Propaganda, Education:
Propaganda and education have close relation and for a non-analytical and non-questioning mind the two would not make any difference. When education instead of being a process of imparting a spirit of free thinking, questioning established or suggested teaching and inquiry becomes a means of influencing, socializing and stuffing of brain with maligned information and learning in the minds of the educatee it becomes propaganda. The merit myth is propagated successfully and received earnestly because it is in line with the prevailing system of beliefs where lower caste or inferior ethnic distinctiveness , traditionally ‘perceived' and ‘believed' to be illiterate ,un-intelligent, devoid of intellectual acumen and ambience ,children of uneducated parents and on the whole offspring of an inferior atmosphere and bio-ethnic conditions which influences the abilities and capabilities(merit) of every member of such origin and continues to persist infinitely.
As Paulo Freire explained in The Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the internalization of the oppressor's opinions, one of the inherent elements of meritocracy, causes their self-depreciation. They “so often hear that they're good for nothing, know nothing, and are incapable of learning anything—that they are sick, lazy, and unproductive—that in the end they become convinced of their own unfitness ” 6

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