Retrospection: a person is not educated who has not learned....

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<p>I came across this quote which relates to this topic and adds some insight…</p>

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Eleanor Roosevelt said in Good Citizenship: The Purpose of Education (1930) “What is the purpose of education? This question agitates scholars, statesmen, every group, in fact, of thoughtful men and women. The conventional answer is the acquisition of knowledge, the reading of books and the learning of facts. Perhaps, because there are so many books and the branches of knowledge in which we can learn facts are so multitudinous today, we begin to hear more frequently that the function of education is to give children a desire to learn and to teach how to use their minds and where to go to acquire facts when their curiosity is aroused.. Even more all-embracing than this, is the statement made not long ago, before a group of English headmasters, by the Archbishop of York, that the`true purpose of education is to produce citizens.'”</p>

<p>"Citizenship is not an activity that an educated person performs as a sideline, but an on-going daily activity that attempts to raise the quality and civility of society and that adds to the richness of a person’s life. Democratic society requires that students be prepared for…their roles and responsibilities in society as well "

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<p>[Spirit</a> of Democracy - Responsibility](<a href=“http://www.unb.ca/democracy/English/Ideas/Responsibility/Responsibility.html]Spirit”>http://www.unb.ca/democracy/English/Ideas/Responsibility/Responsibility.html)</p>