Does education instill depression?

Sometimes people who enjoy life most, or else those who manage to find ways to enjoy life even when they know life is full of rotten things; are actually people who are very intelligent and who have learned how to find ways to find the positive aspects of life (while also being well aware of all the rotten stuff).

In fact, a lot of people (parents are often among them) who believe it is their responsibility to try to encourage a positive feeling in others by not being people who "suck the life out of" everyone they meet. Parents and grandparents often don't feel the least bit like being cheerful or doing something fun, but they'll actually make themselves enjoy life or at least appear to be, because they know how bad it is to be "toxic" to children and grandchildren.

The right parents will usually know how to raise kids who can cope with, put in perspective, and process the bad things in the world without becoming depressed (provided, of course, the child doesn't have "some mysterious chemical imbalance" that isn't anyone's fault. So, no. Education doesn't instill depression.

People sometimes mistake education for intelligence, and they aren't the same thing. Some even believe that no intelligent person can ever be happy. These are misguided beliefs.

When someone gets "depressed" because of thoughts in his head it's often because he's not mature enough, or skilled enough, to be able to deal with those thoughts without becoming "overall" depressed. Teens and people have a tendency toward depression because their pre-frontal cortexes aren't quite finished maturing. Besides, they haven't had enough time to learn some kinds of living/thinking/coping skills.

There's "realistic" and there's "pessimistic". "Realistic leaves room for, acknowledges, and processes the good stuff as well as the bad. "Pessimistic" is a sign that something is wrong.

(Sometimes, though, schools can "indoctrinate" students into believing that "all is doom and gloom", and kids will often listen to them because of their role and/or their ability come across as if they know what they're talking about when they push all the "doom and gloom" in a way that isn't healthy for young people (who are, after all, impressionable when it comes to people they respect enough to listen to).

I can say yes and no. I think that pessimism can be realistic, if you see only the reality pessimistic side. Your knowledge can help you to see also beyond the pessimistic side and you must also be able to look inside yourself.In this way the things around you can change.

I know this is a theory many others share. Stupid people are better actors, so they hide their grief and pain well - they're too full of pride to tell you that they're depressed. Educated people don't go out of their way to play a role, that's why they're educated.

Of course education doesn't instill depression - you're more rational.

Absolutely not. It is an entire different consciousness. These same "ignorant" people may indeed know just as much history, philosophy, and literature... they just don't necessarily ,manipulate the fear and anxiety from it into the motives and furl for all their angst.

I say this so rash only because I once liked to think all the "knowledge" I had gave me superiority and right to be caught in such pessimistic perspectives. But I was wrong, that was only may way of validating myself...because all that history, literature and philosophy, has plenty, if not more, positivity than negativity. You may just be reading the wrong textbooks ;.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.