Reading the World: Ideas That Matter

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To pursue [learning] is to be a man, to give it up is to become a beast. SENECA On Liberal and Vocational Studies 13

I have no respect for any study whatsoever if its end is the making of money.

* LAURENTIUS DE VOLTOLINA Liber Ethicorum des Henricus de Alemania 21

A painting of a class lecture at one of the medieval world's most famous universities.

FREDERICK DOUGLASS Learning to Read 24

I would at times feel that learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing. It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy.

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN from Knowledge Its Own End 31

Knowledge is capable of being its own end. Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE To Teachers 40

In this critical period, the child's life is subjected to the education factory, lifeless, colorless, dissociated from the context of the universe, within bare white walls staring like eyeballs of the dead.

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