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
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