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Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
We need to unlearn some of our respect for education, since it has undermined our respect for ourselves.
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.
So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.
Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctifed your days. But oh! to sit next a man who spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is! How appalling is that ignorance which is the inevitable result of the fatal habit of imparting opinions!
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching-that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.
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