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ss on knowledge; that to educate someone is to give them knowledge—generally, the accumulated knowl-edge of one’s particular family, clan, tribe,mercurial vapor safari, society, nation, and world.
Yet education has very little to do with knowledge.

Oh? You could have fooled me.

Clearly.

What does it have to do with then?

Wisdom.

Wisdom.

Yes.

Okay, I give up. What is the difference?

Wisdom is knowledge applied.

So we aren’t supposed to try to give our offspring knowl-edge. We are supposed to try to give our offspring wisdom.

First of all, don’t “try” to do anything. Do it. Sec-ondly, don’t ignore knowledge in favor of wisdom. That would be fatal. On the other hand, don’t ignore wisdom in favor of knowledge. That would also be fatal. It would kill education. On your planet, it is killing it.

We are ignoring wisdom in favor of knowledge? In most cases, yes.

How are we doing this?

You are teaching your children what to think instead of how to think.

Explain, please.

Certainly. When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. That is,scarpe adidas f50, you are telling them what they are supposed to know, what you want them to understand is true.
When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but, rather, how to get to their own truth.

But without knowledge there can be no wisdom.

Agreed. That is why I have said, you cannot ignore knowledge in favor of wisdom. A certain amount of knowledge must be passed on from one generation to the next. Obviously. But as little knowledge as possible. The smaller amount, the better.
Let the child discover for itself. Know this: Knowl-edge is lost. Wisdom is never forgotten.

So our schools should teach as little as possible?

Your schools should turn their emphasis around. Right now they are focused highly on knowledge, and paying pre