Mass Education, Religious Beliefs, and the Mechanism of Governance

The purpose of mass education is to cultivate the most qualified individuals who obey governance, are efficient, qualified, and superior in productivity. From a holistic perspective, considering collective interests, it provides the most reliable production resources for the governance mechanism to maintain the efficient operation of the entire system.

Mass education does not serve the maximization of interests of individual, specific persons and does not provide personalized education based on individual needs. Therefore, from an individual’s standpoint, if one pursues the most intelligent minds, the most reliable educational methods, the most efficient learning methods, and the most correct paths, it conflicts with the interests of mass education, and their paths do not align.

For most countries, ensuring adequate production resources and a high overall qualification rate is much easier to achieve, and increasing overall GDP is also the easiest. In contrast, if the goal is to maximize the potential of a relatively small amount of production resources by allowing each individual to fully develop their talents, it requires immense wisdom, enormous resource investment, and substantial effort to possibly achieve equivalent returns. This approach is extremely difficult, highly risky, and not cost-effective for the national governance mechanism. Thus, the education systems in most countries are designed to mass-produce qualified individuals.

Religion often emerges alongside royal power, either surpassing it or being authorized by it. Their union enables the birth of religion; otherwise, it would be suppressed and persecuted. Once properly utilized, religion becomes the best story, the best method of governance, and the best way to control and command the people. In classical forms of governance, obedience is paramount. Using this method to control the people is the simplest, cheapest, and most stable way to ensure national interests and maximize the interests of core groups like the royal family and the pope.