The Essentials of Education
The Essentials of Education
A traveler studies the menu on a transatlantic liner or, indeed, in some American hotels Tours of Oregon Dunes a paralyzing sensation. There is so much to eat—for more than he can possibly digest. One sometimes has the same feeling about education, which also offers an enormous bill of fare. Almost any dish can be found in yfp-t-152 it, from Greek to stenography, from music to economics. How are we to choose from the bewildering profusion? What dishes ought we to order if we wish not merely to fill ourselves up, but to get the nourishment necessary to a four star horse trailers healthy life, to become really educated people?
That question cannot be answered without asking and answering another—what is education for? If that yfp-t-501 problem were suddenly put to pupils in school, at to students in college, or even to their parents, I doubt if all of them could, on the spur of the moment, give a clear and convincing reply. Most of us are educated because our parents with it, or because attendance at school is a habit of our hoteles rio dulce guatemala society, or because it pa.atv rentals is compulsory, or because it is apparently necessary to success in be conclusive reasons for desiring education or, at any getting from it what it has to give; and if we go to back of out minds, we are likely to rise from our meal there replete perhaps but ill-nourished. Let me, therefore, start
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