The Value of Value Education

The values they teach at school mean nothing when the people who actually run things are shown daily to profit by flouting them.

Max Stirner saw though this in the early 19th century[0].

> How is it with mankind, whose cause we are to make our own? Is its cause that of another, and does mankind serve a higher cause? No, mankind looks only at itself, mankind will promote the interests of mankind only, mankind is its own cause. That it may develop, it causes nations and individuals to wear themselves out in its service, and, when they have accomplished what mankind needs, it throws them on the dung-heap of history in gratitude. Is not mankind’s cause – a purely egoistic cause?

> I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?

When somebody talks about teaching "values" to you or your children, you should ask yourself which values they mean to teach, and who benefits from their inculcation. Chances are it won't be you or your children.

Also, stop posting shit from Medium. The content there is neither rare nor well done.

[0]: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stirner/ego-and-i...