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 Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit) · 21 letters on life and its challenges by Charles handy
In the book
First, understand what education actually is: not the stuffing of facts into your head but a discipline whose object is to learn how to think — and once you have mastered that, you can turn it on anything. The deepest things, in fact, cannot be handed to you at all; the great paradox of education is that the truly important lessons of life can only be learned through your own endless exploration. Second, you do not need a school for it. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)