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"He was troubled by the domination of education by examinations, a domination that has only strengthened in the years since his death, and by the emphasis of teachers on memorization of facts, what Paulo Freire disparagingly calls "banking education." Such education is not only irrelevant and boring but ultimately miseducative, Makiguchi agreed, and destructive to the individual and to the society, both of which must be forward looking; education must connect to life as it is lived and enrich it."
Robert Bullough, Jr., on Makiguchi, from "Education for Creative Living"