ABSTRACT
“Education,” most conventionally, is equated with training embodied all but unconsciously, and with schoolings that redirect habits. It is an old cliche to say that people live in a world human beings produced. By educating themselves about physics, chemistry, biology, human beings make new worlds for themselves that then become facts, but not destiny either, for future life. Language in its authentic reality is born and lives and is like a perpetual combat and compromise between the desire to speak and the necessity of silence. Silence, ineffability, is a positive and intrinsic factor of language. The people who have authorities over schools are themselves entangled with other people and institutions, from “departments of education” controlled by politicians, to billionaires who befriend politicians and fund this or that reform—not to mention people from Somalia or Bangladesh who are now active neighbors.
