Sunday, November 03, 2013

And that's the way it is …

… The questionable utility of the dancing bear, or, the future of the humanities | The Book Haven.

The humanities are formative. They enable you to shape yourself. What passes for education nowadays is either training or indoctrination, sometimes both. You can train just about anybody to do something. You can train monkeys to pick fruit. Genuine education provides you the means to make yourself into a free human.

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