Society and its influence on conventionality

Essay Conventional and Sterile Tuesday Nov. 07, 2000 It is my understanding that people grow up in a society of conventional and sterile ways of life. Some societies have a tendency to raise people to be similar in their way of thinking. People are educated to have the same morals, beliefs (within their own culture), and, or opportunities at an education. The ways in which these people are raised does not give a chance for independent thinking, …

…ludicrous to many because they lived with the idea that the world was flat. Through generations, people pass down their ways of conventionality to their children. Implements of education, and the system which society offers still keeps ideas of conventionality and methods of sterile practices around in modern society. Although the patterns are being reduced, there are still many things that keep us from becoming a society of individualism's and free of thought and expression.