Published: 19 August 2011

Utilitarian view of education must be denied

WHAT IS education for? It’s probably enough to get my Teaching Council registration revoked, but it occurred to me that I would consider any 20-something who could sit through Terrence Malick’s film Tree of Life, grapple with the questions it poses and discuss them later to be reasonably well-educated.

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