Deception in higher education: A philosophical discussion of the role of ethical communication in education in post-colonial South Africa

Given that education is a fundamentally communicative process, an important obstacle towards such ends, has been processes that involve communicative acts and processes that are deceitful. Through such acts and processes education, better labeled as, "mis-education", has been deceitfully given shortchanging and exchanging harmful knowledge, cognitive schema and epistemic orders instead of advancing truth-seeking and truth-advancing alternatives that aim at delivering the best of human culture to future generations. Through a philosophical discussion of forms and practices of deceitful communication, we highlight institutional and individual dynamics of deceit. This is to draw out new insights into the strangeness by which postcolonial settings, in part by making education deceitful, alienate people from one another.