- The purpose of education should be to create an academic environment that is separate from the outside world
This kind of environment is ideal because it allows... - Although innovations such as video, computers, and the Internet seem to offer schools improved methods for instructing students
these technologies all too often distract from real... - Most people prefer restrictions and regulations to absolute freedom of choice
although they would probably deny such a preference... - Most people are taught that loyalty is a virtue. But loyalty.whether to one's friends
to one's school or place of employment, or to any institution... - Encouraging young people to believe that they can accomplish
great things if they try hard enough is both misleading... - Computers and video technology can make facsimiles of original works such as paintings and historical documents available to everyone
The great advantage of this new technology is that... - Conformity almost always leads to a deadening of individual
creativity and energy.... - Much of the information that people assume is 'factual' actually turns out to be inaccurate
Thus, any piece of information referred to as a 'fact'... - Although it is easy to respond positively to the work of another person or group
it is far more worthwhile to give negative feedback... - An individual's greatness cannot be judged objectively by his or her contemporaries
the most objective evaluators of a person's greatness...
