Education is life—not a mere preparation for an unknown kind of future living. Consequently all static concepts of education which relegate the learning process to the period of youth are abandoned. The whole of life is learning, therefore education can have no endings.
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- Eduard C. Lindeman, The Meaning of Adult Education (1926)
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