Sunday, April 25, 2021

Chris Hedges: The Measure Of a Civilization Is Its Compassion


We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

 Chris HedgesFrom Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacyand the Triumph of Spectacle 

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