Thought of the day July 7, 2009

Does anybody think that higher education and psychology are alike in the sense that they in part distract individuals from the real source of problems? For example, I am convinced that often psychologists are asked to cure problem that arise in large part from conditions found in society and family, and thus the reason often all psychologists can help us do is to manage our distress is that the real causes and cures rest in changing society. Similarly, educators cannot solve problems which arise from a broken families, frayed social relations and the lack of decent jobs for people who do not want to work as part of the information economy. We cannot educate society out of its problems that way.