Education and "Thinking"

"Monkey see monkey do": the essence of education. Education must begin to teach "thinking". Thinking is the ability to do things your own way, to choose for yourself what you want to believe in, and moreover to leave the pack and your following self, overcoming, finding within yourself a leader to lead another pack of monkey-see-monkey-do-ers. This involves a sort of invention or creation, which may not even be possible. This is why thinking is always a trying to think. It is simply realizing this that breaks one out of the pattern of repetition. The student never repays the teacher if he himself never becomes...a teacher.