The Importance of Education

Education is the tabula rossa on which we in cribe all our social desires and expectations. Education has been a place where high hopes have gone to die. We must not fail to note that markedly less light is now thrown on matters of actual learning. This is modern short sightedness at its most vexatious. Dessent carries a high price, especially in the age of the open mind. If all who were engaged in the profession of education were willing to state the facts instead of making greater promises than they can possibly fulfil, they would not be in such bad repute with the lay public many centuries later. A tale that ought to serve as an object lesson for