Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

To be a recipient of a communication is to have an enlarged and changed experience.

Even in a savage tribe, the achievements of adults are far beyond what the immature members would be capable of if left to themselves. With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases.

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

Mind is a verb not a noun.