"Education is not the transmission of information or ideas. Education is the training needed to make use of information and ideas. As information breaks loose from bookstores and libraries and floods onto computers and mobile devices, that training becomes more important, not less."
— Don’t Confuse Technology With Teaching - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via infoneer-pulse)
(via emergentfutures)
"Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges, it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die."
— John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down (via amongflora-and-fauna)
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