Education as a Technology of the Person and the State | Analysis

The text analyzes education not as a simple transmission of knowledge, but as a process of human transformation and a political tool. The author contrasts the Confucian idea of self-cultivation, where learning serves to build virtue, with modern systems of formation. By introducing Michael Sandel's thought, the article challenges the neutrality of education, pointing to the necessity of striving for the common good. A significant element is the analysis of the historical keju examination system as an example of proto-meritocracy. The author points to the paradox of standardization: although it limits the arbitrariness of selection, it often leads to competency reductionism and conformism, where optimization for a metric replaces the actual intellectual and moral development necessary for exercising power.