than what to think - rather to improve our minds,
so as to enable us to think for ourselves,
than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
- Bill Beattie
The way our education system is set up, I have thought about this before. You go through primary or elementary school being taught how to think a certain way. When it comes to thinking for yourself, in your own unique way, you don't know how. The few classes where you are supposed to be able to be free and think the way you wish, such as art classes, dance, drama, we are all told what to do and how to do it. When we stray from these in any way, we are told we are doing it wrong and that we aren't creative enough. As much as our education systems may set us up for universities or colleges or jobs, they don't set us up to think for ourselves. This is how our history will repeat itself. With everyone thinking the same way as our predecessors.
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