West, A: Education and Intelligence (Classic Reprint) -

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Excerpt from Education and Intelligence Do we realize that in our preoccupation with the machinery of education, our ready applause of this and that novelty and our eagerness to turn all to utilitarian ends, irrespective of the abiding in visible values, we are forgetting the all-important and controlling truth of the matter? This truth is that education is a warfare against ignorance the old, ancient, inveterate ignorance to which the human race is newly born with every generation that enters the world. This is the one ever-old and ever-new material to be mastered and trans-n formed - the vast opaque resisting mass which must/21 first be illumined from without and then made ln minous within by the processes of education. It is on the existence of this ever-recurring need the existence of institutions of knowledge depends - for to make the darkness light is the one ceaseless work of education and of educated men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.