12/02/2024
As usual, G.K. says it best. We attempt to provide these "abstract and eternal standards" in our Art and Ideas Section and then show how they function in "material and fugitive conditions" in our Entrepreneurship Section. A good life requires we have ideals, and that we know how to apply them.
EDUCATION
"TO TRAIN a citizen is to train a critic. The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions. If the citizen is to be a reformer, he must start with some ideal which he does not obtain merely by gazing reverently at the unreformed institutions."
─ "On Business Education" (in "All is Grist")
“TO SAY that moderns are half-educated may be too complimentary by half.”
─ "Illustrated London News," June 2, 1928.
“I HAVE nothing but general information; but it is fairly general. What surprises me in people younger, brighter, and more progressively educated than myself is that their general information is very sketchy.”
─ "Illustrated London News,"June 18, 1932.
~G.K. Chesterton