Thomas Merton Quote

The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes itself merely to the mass production of uneducated gradtuates - people literaly unfit for anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade which they and their contemporaries have conspired to call "life".


Love and Living (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979) - ISBN: 9781429966726


The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes...

The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes...

The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes...

The danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes...