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It is the first and fundamental business of education not to stuff the mind with memory-taxing catalogues but to train it to think rightly; not to ignore inherent defects of character but to correct them; not to set students adrift on the sea of adolescent or adult life without an accurate chart but to supply it. If any system of instruction does not do this, then whatever high-sounding names it may bear it is certainly not education. How many have found that their education did not begin until the day after they left school or college?

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 2 : Living in The World > # 590