4/23/18

"Wanted — An Unpractical Education"

"TO TRAIN a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions. If the citizen is to be a reformer, he must start with some ideal which he does not obtain merely by gazing reverently at the unreformed institutions."

~G.K. Chesterton: On Business Education (in "All is Grist")