That is what makes education human. Not just the transfer of knowledge, but the ability to understand others and use that to shape your own perspective.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. And the condemned man can see other people through the windows of his cell, and they can see him, but they cannot communicate.
Tennessee Williams — Where I Live: Selected Essays
There was just one basic problem with college as America's primary unifying institution, which is that not everyone can go to college. First of all, college is difficult. To complete college courses, you need some degree of raw intelligence, but you also need work ethic and a certain degree of independence.
Noah Smith
We live, as we dream—alone; and what makes it maddening is that we know it, and yet cannot help ourselves from dreaming that some other solitude will someday reach across and be company to our own.
Joseph Conrad — Lord Jim