Education
roots of the radical separation of self and object. Together these three laid the foundations for modern
education, foundations now enshrined in myths we have come to accept without question. Let me
suggest six.
First, there is the myth that ignorance is a solvable problem. Ignorance is not a solvable problem, but
rather an inescapable part of the human condition. The advance of knowledge always carries with it
the advance of some form of ignorance. In 1930, after Thomas Midgely Jr. discovered CFCs, what had
previously been a piece of trivial ignorance became a critical, life-threatening gap in the human
understanding of the biosphere. No one thought to ask "what does this substance do to what?" until the
early 1970s, and by 1990 CFCs had created a general thinning of the ozone layer worldwide. With the
discovery of CFCs knowledge increased; but like the circumference of an expanding circle, ignorance
grew as well.
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