Educational institutions
In my opinion, our "educational" institutions are misnamed. The schools, from kindergarten through university, might better be called training institutions for promoting conformity in ideology and social behavior, for that is their most obvious yield. True education, by contrast, aims at awakening, illuminating, and expanding consciousness; at eliciting new possibilities of thinking, feeling, and acting; at exploring new realms of value; at providing standards of truth, beauty, and justice that afford a basis in consciousness for criticizing and modifying existing ways. People who emerge, thus educated, from our institutions of learning are rare.
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