Stefan ZweigConsciously or unconsciously, our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vision of the world; our breath is the air of the epoch in which we live.
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We are what we are, but our education renders us slaves to morals, religion and a perceived vision of the world. What is our education? It’s what we learn in school, but it doesn’t stop there. Our entire life is our education; it’s all the things we hear, see, read, think and do. The words of books and people of authority begin to make sense when they fit with our experience of the world.
Think of someone who has never heard the word human rights or has no idea what they are. They don’t know that people are treated according to their race or religion or that women are not allowed to vote. They can talk about equality and rights, but they don’t know what they are talking about.
It is all lost on them.
Source: Montaigne
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