Episode 4.38: The Great Educational Deception.

The notion that the purpose of education is to use the present to prepare for the future is the most disastrous mistake imaginable. It means, because we never learned to appreciate the present, that we will be similarly dissatisfied by the future. We need to reverse this polarity and treat education as having as its primary responsibility to enable children to extract as much of the meaning of every present experience as they can as the only preparation for the future but in the end really amounts do anything.