it is the one great paradox of education that…
Page 64 it is the one great paradox of education that all the really important things you need to learn about life cannot be taught. You can only learn them by endless exploration.
— from Before Takeoff (front matter) · 21 letters on life and its challenges by Charles handy
In the book
Michelangelo said that his job as a sculptor was only to chip away the surrounding stone and let the figure that was already inside come out; you can shape yourself the same way, whether in freedom or in restraint. And accept early the one great paradox of all education: the truly important things about life cannot really be taught — they can only be learned, by your own endless exploration. A few honest cautions about these strokes. — Before Takeoff (front matter)