<p>-In this episode: The word education comes to us from the Latin educere, which means "to lead out" or "to draw out." Where education in the common parlance has become a process of adding cumulative layers to one's store of knowledge, the true aim of education is to ca</p>

-In this episode: The word education comes to us from the Latin educere, which means "to lead out" or "to draw out." Where education in the common parlance has become a process of adding cumulative layers to one's store of knowledge, the true aim of education is to ca

Introduction. Education:  A Revision - The Spirit Of Education

In this podiobook: What is education?  It's a term we use every day to describe the process of putting 25 or 30 young souls into a cinder block room and filling their heads with what-all over the course of the first quarter of their lives.  But is that education? 

True education is not a process of pouring in from without, but of calling forth what is within.  It's not a process of memorization, it's a process of nurturing, of allowing, of evoking.  It's a process of bringing forth the person one is meant to be.

"...one of those books that provides a banquet, not a morsel, of food for thought."  --education review

Any donations made to this book will go directly to First Book, a nonprofit organization with the mission of providing books to children from low-income families.

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In this podiobook: What is education? It's a term we use every day to describe the process of putting 25 or 30 young souls into a cinder block room and filling their heads with what-all over the course of the first quarter of their lives. But is that education? True education is not a process of pouring in from without, but of calling forth what is within. It's not a process of memorization, it's a process of nurturing, of allowing, of evoking. It's a process of bringing forth the person one is meant to be. "...one of those books that provides a banquet, not a morsel, of food for thought." --education review Any donations made to this book will go directly to First Book, a nonprofit organization with the mission of providing books to children from low-income families.

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