Brandt
defines a literacy sponsor as someone who facilitates the access to knowledge
from various sources, be they institutionalized learning centers, or specific
people who give access to knowledge. They also include one’s parents, who may
possibly be defined as one’s first literacy sponsors, as they are the ones who
may be reading us bedtime stories, or telling us other anecdotes which can form
the primary reason some of us tried to learn various subjects
Brandt
claims that literacy sponsors always have something to gain from their
sponsorship because by sponsoring someone, they spread their own ideas into
their students, which propagates their own ideals and morals into more people,
which in some cases means more power to throw around, such as in politics,
where more people following your ideology means more votes, which ultimately
means more decisive power in office. To do this, sometimes people change facts
a bit, hide some truths, or maybe even lie to achieve their goals.
Another
way that sponsors can gain from their sponsorship of other people can include
the broadening of their own knowledge pool, just by increasing their numbers. Having
more people means you can spread specific problems around in a way that makes
it easier to solve them, especially in occasions where the problem is
multifaceted, in a way that specific parts can be easily solved by different
people with separate skillsets, which otherwise would have rendered the problem
unsolvable.
from this article we can ask questions about the true intentions behind some of the biggest educators, asking whether they are giving access to education in exchange for indoctrination into their own belief system.
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