Thoughts for the Day

Education that corrupts moral and civic virtue

I see everywhere immense institutions where young people are brought up at great expense, learning everything except their duties…. Without knowing how to distinguish error from truth, [your children] will possess the art of making them both unrecognizable to others by specious arguments. But they will not know what the words magnanimity, equity, temperance, humanity, courage are; that sweet name fatherland will never strike their ear; and if they hear of God, it will be less to be awed by him than to be afraid of him.

Rousseau - Discourse on the Arts and Sciences