The word education comes from the
Latin word educare, which means "to draw
out." We do not teach our children the love of
learning. We do not hold knowledge before them as a
powerful tool for personal development. We don't
produce broadly educated, well-rounded leaders for
tomorrow. We teach more and more about less and
less. We don't draw out the individual. We
impose upon the individual--systems and structures. We
don't reverence individuality, we don't treasure it, we
stifle it and try to stamp it out. We don't educate,
we formulate. We abandon the individual in his or her
own need and uniqueness and "impose" the same upon
all.
We provide an education in specialization. We
produce clones for the modern world. We throw people
into a mold, which we call an education system, to form cogs
for the global economic wheel, all the time dangling the
golden carrot before them as incentive and reason.
Truth be told, our modern education systems crush the
very spirit they claim to instill.
Matthew Kelly
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