So, what is education for?

21st January 2005, 12:00am

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So, what is education for?

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Ultimately, education is there to give us the tools and training to go on thinking and talking even if we should get locked up in a prison with no books and only ourselves for company. In other words, it should give us inner resources and independence of thought.

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