{"id":82743,"date":"2021-09-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=82743"},"modified":"2021-09-18T14:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T19:56:50","slug":"education-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/22\/education-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words on Wednesday: Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Stratford.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"843\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Stratford-843x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-82746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Stratford-843x1024.jpeg 843w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Stratford-247x300.jpeg 247w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Stratford-768x933.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Stratford.jpeg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 843px) 100vw, 843px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe central idea of the present book is very simple. It is that education is not primarily about the acquisition of information. It is not even about the acquisition of \u2018skills\u2019 in the conventional sense, to equip us for particular roles in society. It is about how we become more human (and therefore more free, in the truest sense of that word). This is a broader and a deeper question, but no less practical. Too often we have not been educating our humanity. We have been educating ourselves for doing rather than for being.\u201d <\/p><cite>Stratford Caldecott, Beauty in the Word: Rethinking the Foundations of Education<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe central idea of the present book is very simple. It is that education is not primarily about the acquisition of information. It is not even about the acquisition of \u2018skills\u2019 in the conventional sense, to equip us for particular roles in society. It is about how we become more human (and therefore more free, in the truest sense of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423],"tags":[1562,5978],"class_list":["post-82743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-education","tag-stratford-caldecott"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82743"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82747,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82743\/revisions\/82747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}