What an education is, and the purpose of it isn’t the same through the eyes of everyone. There are many points that make a true education. “A sign-post is of no earthly use unless the person who consults it wants to go somewhere.” ( Robert Shafer “A People’s Working Education”). If the student doesn’t have the desire to learn he or she won’t. The quote explains that the sign-post, or teacher, has no earthly use unless the person who consults it, the student, wants to go somewhere, or get an education. So in other words Robert Shafer, I believe, said, a teacher is of no earthly use unless the student wants to get an education. I believe this statement. A student must have the desire to retain information and take in an education to have
