If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that the educational system prioritizes success over true happiness for children.
Jorge Bucay highlights a significant issue within the educational system, which often fosters competition and success based on external measures such as wealth, rather than nurturing genuine happiness in children. He points out that while parents desire their children to be content and fulfilled, the way education is structured does not align with this goal, leading to a disconnection between success and personal happiness, hence presenting an 'eternal problem' in societal values.
In practice
This quote can be shared in an educational seminar to discuss the balance between success and happiness in the curriculum.
I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.
The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.
Once it is recognized that productive thinking in any area of cognition is perceptual thinking, the central function of art in general education will become evident.
The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.
When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.
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