What is the purpose of education?

To learn mathematics, physics, and other topics?

Eric Hoffer takes a more expansive view…

Hoffer says, “The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning.

It should produce not learned but learning people.

The truly human society is a learning society where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.”

Projecting his view in a startling suggestion highly relevant to our current landscape of life-changing technological advancement and change, Hopper writes:

“In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” (1)

(1) Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the human condition, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1973, New York.

__ Dennis Mellersh, Business Media Writer, Journalist & Editor