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2014-11-09-E_F_Schumacher_on_education

Title: E F Schumacher on education

Date: 2014-11-09
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Every now and then I look back on notes I have made. Here's a 40-year old gem:

"When people ask for education they normally mean something more than mere training, something more than mere knowledge of facts, something more than a mere diversion. Maybe they cannot themselves formulate precisely what they are looking for; but I think what they are really looking for is ideas that would make the world, and their own lives, intelligible to them. When a thing is intelligible, you have a sense of participation..."

E.F. Schumacher Small Is Beautiful (1973), p. 77.

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