Saturday, February 02, 2008

Education

Here's a question for everyone: what is education FOR?

3 comments:

John said...

To help the adapted mind overcome what it is innately bad at, e.g. supplementing vitalism with evolutionary biology and heuristics with statistics?

To create civilized human beings who are capable of ruling themselves, i.e. liberation through discipline?

To help get homo sapiens settled down and happy before s/he wrecks the planet?

To teach people how to want God, truth and beauty?

To provide jobs for an army of "compassionate" people educated (mostly) in the arts and social sciences who don't actually know how to do anything, and a publicly funded nanny for parents who don't have the time or skills to look after their kids?

Troy Camplin said...

Hmm . . . Why do I get the feeling that at least one of these is ironic?

John said...

I should have said "self discipline."