Petronius in The Satyricon (ca. 50 AD?) begins by saying: "we don't educate our children at school; we stultify them and then send them out into the world half-baked.. And why? Because we keep them utterly ignorant of real life." This leads me to wonder, has there ever been an age where we weren't dissatisfied with the state of education? If not, does this say more about students or about humans in general? Maybe we're dissatisfied because we have some sense of the ideal and no human institution will ever come close to producing it. Thoughts?
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