"We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience." John Dewey 

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." John Dewey

Ivan Illich: "By the early seventeenth century a new consensus began to arise: the idea that man was born incompetent for society and remained so unless he was provided with “education.” Education came to mean the inverse of vital competence. It came to mean a process rather than the plain knowledge of the facts and the ability to use tools which shape a man’s concrete life. Education came to mean an intangible commodity that had to be produced for the benefit of all, and imparted to them in the manner in which the visible Church formerly imparted invisible grace. Justification in the sight of society became the first necessity for a man born in original stupidity, analogous to original sin."

White people think they can learn everything right away, by reading it out of a book and asking questions at everyone. But it doesn’t work that way, you got to experience it and live it to learn it . . . Stop asking questions. You ask too many fucking questions. Because when you’re ready to know, it’ll be shown to you. Maybe by the end of this trip, you’ll know just a little, tiny bit . . . Yeah, but then maybe you won’t want to write a book anymore, because it’s impossible to write down those kinds of things . . . And people won’t understand anyway, because they didn’t experience it. ~ Lewis Atcitty, a Navajo