With school back in session, it’s time again for that annoyingly uncomfortable but occasionally useful question: What’s the point?
Hundreds upon hundreds are the enduringly salient quotes on the nature and purpose of education, my favorite being the one from Will Durant, who in the middle of the last century somehow found time to sit down with his wife and write “The Story of Civilization,” all 11 volumes.
“Education,” Durant said, “is the progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
