Questions You Are Not Supposed to Ask
respect society, to obey the law, do what they are told, hold down a steady job, pay their taxes and be a quiet cog in a giant machine.
What would happen to a society if everyone were like that?
It would shrink into insignificance
At one time the mighty Roman Empire ruled the known world. Why did it fail? the barbarians invaded it, but Rome was a superpower
and the invaders were just a bunch of hooligans.
The truth was that under the thumb of the suffocating beauracracy that Rome had become the citizens did not have sufficient spirit left to even issue a parking ticket to the invaders. The barbarians were wild, but at least they could think for themselves.
What is education supposed to be?
A way of making the individual more powerful.
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What is the antithesis of education?
Telling people what to think, or telling them to stop thinking. In 496 AD the Roman Catholic Church decreed that certain books were to be banned...
What is the best education?
Self-education.