9. What Individuals Contribute to Their Own Education
Man is endogenous, and education is his unfolding. The aid we have from others is mechanical, compared with the discoveries of nature in us. What is thus learned is delightful in the doing, and the effect remains.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is the lifelong process of pursuing the activities that give meaning to our lives. Given that education in a country such as ours takes place in the social context of a liberal democracy, the question arises: What tools do human beings possess by nature to enable them to engage in this process?
In the opening words of his groundbreaking treatise ...
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