Outline of Education - Essence of Education

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“The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)

“The essence of government is power, and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)

“Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)