Gatekeeper

Gatekeeper

The teacher is the gatekeeper; means that education is the key to a better and more wholesome existence. The teacher is the keeper of knowledge, since the teacher is the one with the knowledge that means they hold the key to open up the most powerful in the world, that door is the human mind. A closed mind is an ignorant mind, a person that does not think for themselves is a person that is without knowledge, and therefore they do not have the capacity to think for themselves. The only way they can gain that ability is through gaining knowledge on how the world and their society work. Some societies restrict education from their citizens, because keeping people ignorant makes it easier to control them. Take for instance the ordeal African Americans faced during the days of slavery and onward to the time of the Arkansas nine. Education was not offered to the slaves at all during slavery days, the government was in such support of this that they made it illegal for any citizens to teach a slaves, it was a felony to teach slaves the whites would be jailed for teaching the slave and as for the slave themselves being educated is a death sentence, they would be killed if they even knew how to read. Even after the days of slavery was over and the blacks were given their freedom education was still being restricted from the African Americans, this was designed to keep their minds locked even though their bodies were not in chains their minds were still locked up. The same practice was being utilized by the ancient Egyptians, Sumerians and the Mesopotamians. Even though there cultures were a more advanced culture as for as education is concerned, there tactics were still as barbaric, the common citizen were not allowed to be educated, only the most influential citizens were given the opportunity to an education. They knew if their citizens minds were unlocked and gained wisdom, the citizens would start to think and make their own decision, therefore keeping their minds locked was the solution they came up with to have complete control over the citizens.