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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Thomas Merton: On the danger of education


“The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it so easily forgets both and devotes itself merely to the mass production of uneducated graduates – people literally unfit for anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade which they and their contemporaries have conspired to call ‘life’. Thomas Merton in “Love and Living.”

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