corruption and education

[SkyFlakes]

Corruption always exists in politics and most of the time, the criteria to have a position is that you have any degree or in simpler wordw, you should be educated. Knowledge is a power indeed as we can use it in rightful and even in wrong ways. That's where I believe where corrupt people go in. They are well educated and with that knowledge and power they have, corrupting is just an easy thing to do. It is sad that those who are well educated are those who are doing this thing. The moral and character shouldalso be there as a balance to the education that they get to understand that corrupting doesn't create any good effect to anyone.

[Altcoinbestcoin]

what kind of people are more corrupted? Educated or Uneducated.. i think you know better. Education should be the the prime source to establish morality and responsibility against the corruption. But why the 80% [i think] of total corruption is happened among the literate people?

Quite frankly the more educated and literate you are in an educated and literate society the more likely you're going to have access and ability to act in a corrupt manner. If you are uneducated, where will you be corrupt? At the dollar store? Maybe if you start your own franchise or something maybe you can be corrupt against your own employees but it'll never be government level or high profile finance corruption or anything like that.

[varun bee]

this whole sweeping generalisation is absurd to begin with. corruption is not a educated or uneducated base phenomenon, but being educated helps one to make good contacts or in the higher places and then progress to commit humongous scams. corruption is associated with greed & compartmentalization of a system. when a system is rewarding corruption, people will automatically assume it to be a norm & everyone is expected to fall in line with either paying the system or getting paid by the system. education plays little or negligible part in such occurring. better education or awareness may help in lowering the level of corruption but thats another point to begin with.

[TiceOwil]

Corruption is based on character alone. It has no relationship with literacy or illiteracy. Illiteracy is one's status obtained from the lack of access to education through reading and writing. But, reading and writing alone is not the sole means of acquiring knowledge. So, an illiterate person can also be knowledgeable and wise.

Literacy can however open up a huge opportunity to enhance knowledge, develop skills, and also become more innovative and intelligent.

All these attributes can help a good man to live honestly and a bad man to lead a vile life. Education is merely a tool for gaining knowledge, honing skills and solving problems. A corrupt person can also use his education either to lead an honest life or for enhancing skills to become more corrupt without getting caught. One can choose and get enough learning material for catering to either proclivities.

Just like we differentiate between good conduct and bad conduct, we should also differentiate between good education and bad education.

[Guard225]

I think the educators are the most corrupt. They try to distort students beliefs, and install their own non-competitive idears. Political correctness has gone mad - why would anyone think that  a white supremacist phrase like "person of colour" is non-racist, and a simple description of skin colour is racist?

You're going too far, i think that everyone who teaches people will pass on some biases. Only a handful of people can really control themselves enough to strive on being fully objective. After all, when you're teaching someone something, you're changing their worldview. Humanities being so closely tied to our characters only makes the influence stronger, since you're learning things that affect your perception on society more.

[maldini]

all people who are corrupt must be educated, if they are not educated it is impossible for them to occupy such high positions.
corrupt people are not taught good morals from childhood, they are more concerned with each other's ego, they only think of the pleasures of the world without fear of sin

[Willie_Linder]

I believe that educated people are more corrupted. It is strange but it is a fact. Politicians, for example, do not hesitate to take bribery even though they are all educated. The more people are educated, the more they try to cheat. It is like a lawyer trying to avoid laws. People think that education will help them find loopholes. For example, educated people do not pay fully their taxes as well. Uneducated people, on the contrary, are afraid of laws and try to obey. Of course, some of them are really mad and commit crimes but generally, educated people are the cheaters in our society. Corruption is their act.

[Wizardbizari]

what kind of people are more corrupted? Educated or Uneducated.. i think you know better. Education should be the the prime source to establish morality and responsibility against the corruption. But why the 80% [i think] of total corruption is happened among the literate people?

Because the remaining 20%, i.e. illiterate or uneducated just never get a chance to occupy a position that enables them to be a part of corruption. That simple. So, education hasn't got anything to do with corruption, but it provides a way to get involved if you are prone to it.

I agree. Education provides an opportunity to be engaged in corruption, but it doesn't change a person's attitudes or integrity, which means that education itself doesn't spoil people. It just might enable morally bankrupt people to engage in corruption, IMO.

[mcqueen95]

These issue are mostly related to the countries in transition and the developing parts of the world. However, in many developed countries, corruption is also endemic within education namely, corruption entered this area and seriously endangers schools and universities. Corruption in the education sector can be defined as "the systematic use of public office for private benefit, whose impact is significant on the availability and quality of educational goods and services, and, had impact on access, quality or equity in education"   ( Hallak and Poison, 2002 ). Unfortunately, very little research has been carried out to compare the costs of corruption in the education sector.

[TURBOCottonnmouth]

Maybe the reason is that they believe they're smarter than other people? Especially in the education sector. People engaged in teaching/instructing are prone to believe they're kind of superior to others, which might "entitle" them to behavior usually considered to be immoral/illegal.
It's too hard to explain, really.

[Tramle091296]

what kind of people are more corrupted? Educated or Uneducated.. i think you know better. Education should be the the prime source to establish morality and responsibility against the corruption. But why the 80% [i think] of total corruption is happened among the literate people?

You cant blame also they had the power to manipulate the people, the educated peoples always is has a many steps in terms of plans among the uneducated people. most in our country educated always use they power to traffic drugs, human traffacking, smuggling, that leads to a country get less taxes that will help to those people who cant find a job children who can eat. Even in education has a corruption not only the educated and uneducated many fees you will pay and its not even use for the school of for the students.

[FilesFM_Official]

It might be strange me saying this but I believe todays education is corruption of the young minds to be enslaved into the world of capitalism. Thats the real corruption, how we shape our young individual minds to the ideas and values of a progressive think tank, run by social elites engineering to our skewed reality of the world. Interestingly you will also find that most of the Think Tank engineers have connections and allegiances to countries like Israel than our own goals and objectives in the west.

[christina.arnigo]

what kind of people are more corrupted? Educated or Uneducated.. i think you know better. Education should be the the prime source to establish morality and responsibility against the corruption. But why the 80% [i think] of total corruption is happened among the literate people?

Corruption happened normally in educated person because they are clever enough to manipulate the society.  They have also connections that can connive with their plans.  Educated people are the one who are greedy in fame, in money and power. They are doing everything just to have those things. They were eaten by the system. They cannot handle their wealth and power. They are greedy and selfish enough that they forget to be humane which should the first character of a political man. How sad it is but it is the reality. Im not saying that all educated people are like these but many that are in the political position are having this kind of mind and heart.

[VipCoin00]

In my opinion, these two issues are closely related to the existence of a nation.
If multiple corruption will make the political situation unstable, resulting in economic slowdown.
If education is not good then the future of a country is threatened

[screwedit]

You can be a highly educated person with low morality.
You can be an illiterate person with a moral high ground.

[soundrum]

Educated people are more corrupt more than uneducated people because have more opportunities in business, government and institutions and with this, they have access to more money than uneducated ones

[beatzcoin123]

it depends on the form of education, formal education does not buttress more on morality, morality is primarily the responsibility of the parents and ward to inculcate on it wards. Failure to do so leads to societal degradation in value and norms.

[D1zee]

Educated people are more corrupt more than uneducated people because have more opportunities in business, government and institutions and with this, they have access to more money than uneducated ones

I will agree to this to some degree because of their education that we are able to see this clearly since they hold all this public offices and their activities in this offices can easily be scrutinized by the public and that makes it more glaring as most corrupt even if we still have as much uneducated corrupt people operating on their own level  . 

[SneakyLady]

In order to be successfully "corrupt" and actually benefit from your immorality, you have to already be in a position of power, which usually takes a certain amount of education. It's human nature to take shortcuts at the expense of others.

[Verbiola_Paramita]

education that used to be a means of finding truth and values eventually turned into a means of searching for pseudo-identity, abstract, and far from the value of morality of humanity. what is acute is that, the suspects and defendants involved in various corruption cases are elite elites. They are generally graduates of higher education, from elite schools as well. More and more university graduates, at present, are not making this country more advanced, but are increasingly entangled in a cycle of corruption..