The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.
Still another is likewise obvious: if by education can be meant not mere schooling in facts but a profound clearing and cleaning of the mental air, a real qualifying of a human being for existence, then education is all but nonexistent, and what passes for it is merely a more or less organized dispensary of poisons which may or may not take.