Root Cause of Problem Education, defined in the broad sense above, indoctrinates the individual of a group into accepting as truth - statements about conditions or events, which, however true, cannot be directly experienced by oneself. By the time the individual emerges into adulthood within a group, one is severely programmed to accept many of the essentials of one's cultural framework as undisputable truths. As long as human beings can be divided by conceptual frameworks that cannot be challenged against our direct experience, we will continue to be divided and take our divisions seriously. As long as we are committedly divided, conflict among us is inevitable. Already today, and in the future, conflict can trigger violence in the form of terrorism or war that can have cataclysmic consequences.
Language is the primary medium of education.
It is with language that we both store and share our experiences. Language evolved as a means of referring to our physical experience. As much of the conceptual foundations of any culture is based on such vague and subtle concepts, our unwitting acceptance of their precision misled us to trust their validity far more than their fuzzy content would really merit. This misplaced and unwitting trust in the foundations of our cultural foundation makes them appear absolute. This, in turn, makes their authority over us absolute.