Education???

Two quotations and a poem which summarize my view on education:

When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.

Dan Snow

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

A word from Bertolt Brecht

I hear you don’t want to learn anything I hear you don’t want to learn anything. I gather from that: you’re millionaires. Your future is assured — it lies bright and clear before you. Your parents have fixed things so that your feet won’t get bruised on any stones. So you don’t need to learn anything. You can stay the way you are.

Should some difficulties nevertheless arise — since the times, so I hear, are uncertain — you’ve got your Leaders, who’ll tell you exactly what you’ve go to do so things will go well for you. They’ve consulted the ones who know the truths that are valid for all time and the prescriptions that always work. With so many who are for you you don’t need to lift a finger. Of course, if things were different, you’d have to learn.