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Richard Weaver on Education

1910–1963 United States

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Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

Life Without Prejudice (1965)

The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane of the bourgeoisie. That kind of education does not develop the aristocratic virtues. It neither encourages reflection nor inspires reverence for the good.

Ideas have Consequences (1948)

Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. … The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.

Life Without Prejudice (1965)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Weaver (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.