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< We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and            >
< "success", defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically    >
< and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education  >
< is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital     >
< interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques >
< for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization   >
< is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself    >
< to death.                                                                  >
<         ― Chris Hedges, "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the   >
<           Triumph of Spectacle"                                            >
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