Of course, the main fact about education is that there is no such thing. It does not exist, as theology or soldiering exist. Theology is a word like geology; soldiering is a word like soldering; these sciences may be healthy or no as hobbies; but they deal with stone and kettles, with definite things. But education is not a word like geology or kettles. Education is a word like transmission or inheritance; it is not an object, but a method. It must mean the conveying of certain facts, views, or qualities, to the last baby born. They might be the most trivial facts or the most preposterous
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