Chapter 9 9

From these conflicting aims arose two incompatible contradictory institutions, the one public and communal, the other private and domestic.If you want to understand what public education is, please read Plato's, which is far from being a political book, as people who take the name from the name may imagine.In fact, it's a book on pedagogy, and it's the best ever written.As for our ridiculous colleges, I don't think of them as a system of public education.In the same way, I would not regard the fashionable way of education as such a system, because this kind of education wants both and ends up getting nothing.They can only educate hypocrites, who say they are for others but only have themselves in their hearts.