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Can 'Education' Be Defined? |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / T.S. ELIOT ON THE AIMS OF EDUCATION |
| Author: T.S. Eliot |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,753 Words, 15,436 Characters |
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Education is a subject on which we all feel that we have something to say. We have all been educated, more or less; and we have, most of us, complaints to make about the defects of our own education; and we all like to blame our educators, or the system within which they were compelled to work, for our failure to educates ourselves...
...It is immediately obvious that the word education means something different, to begin with, when we are talking of what is offered and when we are talking of what is received; when we are talking of education as something done to people and when we when mean what they do for themselves. We may mean the machine, or we may mean the contact of an apt pupil with the right teacher...
...But besides the variations of meaning of the same word in the sam...
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...and various accounts of the purpose of education are given. We must go on inventing new ones. Each answer is a clue to what education means to somebody; an incentive to finding out what it means for oneself. If it meant exactly the same thing to everybody, the world would be a very dead place indeed; so we have no reason to deplore the fact, if we find the meaning of education... elusive....
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