Education is not natural or easy

It is not the natural state of people to be educated. We cannot expect education to just happen like the budding of a flower. It is always going to be like pushing water uphill. Yet once students start to gain facility, they gain confidence and motivation.

Education is not utilitarian, it is emancipatory

We don’t teach children the fruits of our civilization so that they can get a good job. That is a happy by-product. We teach so that they can stand on the shoulders of giants and see further than they otherwise would have seen.