Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which,except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of understanding something new.
Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future