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Education (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a process of waking the natural capacities in the soul. It aims to bring the innate knowledge that resides within each person out into conscious awareness.

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Education (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠as reflected in the latin 'educare' a kind of 'leading out' of knowledge which is already unconsciously held within the pull.

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Education (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠tasked with teaching us to love beauty.

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Education (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the directing of the power to learn which is present in everyone's soul. It isn't the craft of putting sight into the soul. It takes for granted that sight is there but that it isn't turned the right way or looking where it ought to look, and it tries to redirect the body and the soul appropriately.

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Education (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.