To acknowledge that we live inside a structural cage—a system in which freedom is experiential rather than substantive, pain is individualized, and thought is pre-scripted—is not to surrender to despair. It is to initiate a genuinely radical educational project. If the core failure of contemporary education lies in shaping human beings into compliant system nodes, then its remedy must be equally structural: education must cultivate people capable of diagnosing, intervening in, and redesigning...
