The Aims of Education Address (for the class of 2006)
“The reason for getting an education here — or anywhere else — is that it is better to be educated than not to be. It is better in and of itself. Not because it gets you something. Not because it is a means to some other end. It is better because it is better. Note that this statement implies that the phrase “aims of education” is nonsensical; education is not a thing of which aims can be predicated. It has no aim other than itself.”
Whenever I need to remember what education is all about, I turn here.
