The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we
need to change our present concept of education. Education is not
properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries,
either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper
use is to enable citizens to live lives that are economically,
politically, socially, and culturally responsible. This cannot be done
by gathering or "accessing" what we now call "information" - which is to
say facts without context and therefore without priority. A proper
education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means
knowing what things are more important than other things; it means
putting first things first.
-- Wendell Berry
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