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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Education And Instruction: Near Antipodes Cut Out For Cross-Fertilization

Frost reminds me that "The first duty of a Christian is to listen."

Alan: Readers who are baffled by this post's title -- "The Value Of College Is Not Just Economic But Educational" -- might be better off quarantined in some off-campus instructional process. 

Why?


Most putatively "educated" people confuse education with instruction. 


"Education" - deriving from the Latin "ex ducare" - "leads out of" preemptive concern with individual good, re-focusing attention on The Common Good


In a word, "education" is social. 


On the other hand, "instruction" - from the Latin "in struire" meaning to "pile up upon" -- loads facts and practical skills "upon" atomistic individuals who are then prepared to make their own way in private worlds. 


In a word, "instruction" is essentially monadic and isolating. 


Without education, instruction (which is the planet's default learning method) undermines The Common Good by teaching people to treat the world as a gold mine to be exploited like 49-ers staking claims to private land tracts for personal advantage. 


The goals charted by "education" and "instruction" are essentially antipodal although the latter can -- and should -- be used in service to the former.

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