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[00:01.49]Lesson 33
[00:03.49]Education
[00:10.75]Why is education democratic in bookless tribal societies?
[00:17.86]Education is one of the key words of our time.
[00:21.78]A man without an education, many of us believe,
[00:25.37]is an unfortunate victim of adverse circumstances, deprived of one of the greatest twentieth-century opportunities.
[00:33.77]Convinced of the importance of education, modern states 'invest'in institutions of learning to get back 'interest'
[00:41.88]in the form of a large group of enlightened young men and women who are potential leaders.
[00:48.58]Education, with its cycles of instruction so carefully worked out,
[00:53.66]punctuated by textbooks--those purchasable wells of wisdom--what would civilization be like without its benefits?
[01:03.18]So much is certain: that we would have doctors and preachers,
[01:07.17]lawyers and defendants marriages and births--but our spiritual outlook would be different.
[01:14.47]We would lay less stress on 'facts and figures' and more on a good memory,
[01:19.85]on applied psychology, and on the capacity of a man to get along with his fellow-citizens.
[01:26.76]If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past
[01:31.38]we would have the most democratic form of 'college' imaginable.