Newman’s The Idea of a University advocates his ideas of university education seeking to guard against obscureantism in education. With life, society and the workplace changing so much today, I find that the philosophy of unschooling can give us insight into how we can come better self-directed learners and prepare ourselves for a future that we can’t predict. To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

This bit of advice reminds us that developing the passion for lifelong learning within students is the key to their success. The notion of educating a man to live in any particular time or place, to adjust him to any particular environment, is therefore foreign to a true conception of education.

A tiny reminder that I’m still learning, always learning. So when in class don’t see what your teacher is teaching you as a waste of time look at it as …