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What's education about?

為什麼要推廣Homeschooling/Unschooling/Eclectic Learning? 教育到底應該是一個什麼樣的東東?昨日亂翻書,看到這麼幾句有關教育的話,基本代表我的看法吧:

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowlege and experience, and has little to do with schools or colleges.

                               ------Lilian Smith,Redbook(1969)

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-----that is educated.

                -----Edith Hamilton,Saturday Evening Post(1958)

 

I learned three important things in college---to use a library,to memorize quickly and visually,to drop asleep at any time given a horizen surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

                 -----Agnes De Mille,Dance to the Piper(1952)

Nowerdays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary.Attention is wholly centered on intelligence,while the heartlife is ignored.

            ----George Sand,The Intimate Journal of George Sand

 

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections,and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix,then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say,not befitting the human mind.

                      ------Mary Shelly, Frankenstein(1918)

 

 

Enlighten me.