If the purpose of education is to introduce new generations to the already existent world and to tell about it as it is, that also means that has to avoid telling how the world should be : “Education can’t foretell the future ; instead it has to keep the future open so that the next generation can take action.”
Dernier ajout : 12 novembre 2015.
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