The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.


Section 32 - Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

Eric Hoffer Quotes

The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human...

The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human...

The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human...

The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human...