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When most people think of the word "education," they think of a pupil as a sort of animate sausage casing. Into this empty casing, the teachers ___ 26 ___stuff "education."But genuine education, as Socrates knew more than two thousand years ago, is not ___ 27 ___the stuffing of information into a person, but rather eliciting knowledge from him; it is the ___ 28 ___ of what is in the mind.
"The most important part of education," once wrote William Ernest Hocking, the ___29 ___ Harvard philosopher, "is this instruction of a man in what he has inside of him. And, as Edith Hamilton has reminded us, Socrates never said, "I know, learn from me." He said, rather, "Look into your own selvers and find the ___ 30 ___ of truth that God has put into every heart, and that only you can kindle (点燃) to a ___ 31___."
In a dialogue, Socrates takes an ignorant slave boy, without a day of ___ 32___, and proves to the amazed observers that the boy really "knows" geometry--because the principles of geometry are already in his mind, waiting to be called out.
So many of the discussions and ___ 33 ___ about the content of education are useless and inconclusive because they ___ 34 ___what should "go into" the student rather than with what should be taken out, and how this can best be done.
The college student who once said to me, after a lecture, "I spend so much time studying that I don't have a chance to learn anything," was clearly expressing his___ 35 ___ with the sausage-casing view of education.
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