To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education.To build a church when a hospital is needed is to take from the parched lips of the sick the cup of relief and from the suffering the merciful hand of help.When the object of man's conduct will be to improve the conditions of his fellow man and not the appeasement of a mythical God, he will become more understanding and more indulgent of the frailties, mistakes, and action of others, and by the same token he will become more appreciative of their efforts.He will develop a greater consciousness to avoid mistakes and to prevent injury. Life and its living will take on a greater significance, and our efforts and energies will be devoted to creating as much joy and happiness as possible for all living creatures.
People think of education as something that they can finish. And what__ more, when they finish, it__ a rite of passage. You__e finished with school. You__e no more a child, and therefore anything that reminds you of school - reading books, having ideas, asking questions - that__ kid__ stuff. Now you__e an adult, you don__ do that sort of thing any more.You have everybody looking forward to no longer learning, and you make them ashamed afterward of going back to learning. If you have a system of education using computers, then anyone, any age, can learn by himself, can continue to be interested. If you enjoy learning, there__ no reason why you should stop at a given age. People don__ stop things they enjoy doing just because they reach a certain age.What__ exciting is the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there__ now a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can think about and can understand. It seems to me that when it__ time to die, there would be a certain pleasure in thinking that you had utilized your life well, learned as much as you could, gathered in as much as possible of the universe, and enjoyed it. There__ only this one universe and only this one lifetime to try to grasp it. And while it is inconceivable that anyone can grasp more than a tiny portion of it, at least you can do that much. What a tragedy just to pass through and get nothing out of it.
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People think of education as something that they can finish. And what__ more, when they finish, it__ a rite of passage. You__e finished with school. You__e no more a child, and therefore anything that reminds you of school - reading books, having ideas, asking questions - that__ kid__ stuff. Now you__e an adult, you don__ do that sort of thing any more.You have everybody looking forward to no longer learning, and you make them ashamed afterward of going back to learning. If you have a system of education using computers, then anyone, any age, can learn by himself, can continue to be interested. If you enjoy learning, there__ no reason why you should stop at a given age. People don__ stop things they enjoy doing just because they reach a certain age.What__ exciting is the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there__ now a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can think about and can understand. It seems to me that when it__ time to die, there would be a certain pleasure in thinking that you had utilized your life well, learned as much as you could, gathered in as much as possible of the universe, and enjoyed it. There__ only this one universe and only this one lifetime to try to grasp it. And while it is inconceivable that anyone can grasp more than a tiny portion of it, at least you can do that much. What a tragedy just to pass through and get nothing out of it.
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