Shouldn't…but Do

A billboard seen recently…

“Education in two words: You’re Hired”

Novel. The deep premise of education appears here to mean making money. Broadly, education, perhaps training, does equal greater capability for compensation, not my discussion.

Babeled.com provides the following etymology for “education:”

“The literal translation of educate is to draw out of, lead out of… The Romans considered educating to be synonymous with drawing knowledge out of somebody or leading them out of regular thinking. “

Yes, to lead out of, away from regular thinking, as do the challenges we face in everyday life. How far we have come, from imagination as the ideal of education, to commerce as the goal behind education. Sometimes being grounded is not such a good thing.