Thursday, June 12, 2008

On Education

"The purpose of education is not happiness; it is not social integration. Its purpose is at once the discipline of the mind for the vocations of life and the cultivation of the mind for its own sake. These ends are to be achieved through the mastery of fundamental subjects which cluster around language and number, the two chief instruments by which man knows himself and understands his relation to the world."

Allen Tate, American author

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