John Maynard KeynesEducation: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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Education is a thing that doesn't have a lot of meaning except to the people who do it. It's a way for people to put their knowledge into a package and sell it to others. It's also a way for people to take something that is already known and teach it to others. If you think about it, the only thing that makes education useful is that other people buy it.
That's the only way an education can make anyone know anything. There couldn't be any "education" if no one bought what you were selling, and there couldn't be any "facts" if no one knew them, and there couldn't be any "knowledge" if no one could use it, and there couldn't be any "useful" without something called "education."
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