I was looking for a quote about education for an essay and I came across this---> "Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world."
This quote reminded of waht Descartes talks about in the Discourse. "And this I thought that book learining, at least the kind whose reasonings are merely probable and that do not have any demonstartions, having been composed and enlarged little by little from the opinions of may different persons, does not draw nearly so close to the truth as the simple reasonings that a man of good sense can naturally make about the things he encounters".
I think that both of these quotes are saying the same exact thing. They have to do with how things you learn in school, books, and from you're teachers and parents are not good or truthful because they do not prepare you for the real world. You can have an education and read good books and learn things but the things you are learning does not prepare you for or teach you about life.
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