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