Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.
Interpretation
Schooling is just a part of the broader concept of education, which occurs throughout life.
The quote emphasizes that while formal schooling takes place within the confines of a school, true education is a lifelong process that begins at birth and continues until death. It suggests that valuable learning experiences are not limited to the classroom but occur throughout every aspect of life.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of lifelong learning.
We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes it as a time of change, growth and new learning, a time when our courage gives us hope.
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.
Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there.
I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.
But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
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