Education
The consequences for their personhood and for the planet
are large. For example, we routinely produce economists who lack the most rudimentary knowledge of
ecology. This explains why our national accounting systems do not subtract the costs of biotic
impoverishment, soil erosion, poisons in the air or water, and resource depletion from gross national
product. We add the price of the sale of a bushel of wheat to GNP while forgetting to subtract the three
bushels of topsoil lost in its production. As a result of incomplete education, we've fooled ourselves
into thinking that we are much richer than we are.
Fifth, there is a myth that the purpose of education is that of giving you the means for upward mobility
and success. Thomas Merton once identified this as the "mass production of people literally unfit for
anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade." When asked to write
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