Fortune Cooke on Education

I'm working at my sister's house. She sits at her table by the window in her studio, while I sit at her dining room table in the other room, and we can each work on our own thing, but together. Sometimes, we take a break for a few seconds and chat.

Just now, she came over to her dining room table, picked up a fortune cookie from her lunch out the other day, and ate the fortune cookie. She read her fortune:

"The aim of education is to teach us how to think, not what to think."

Yes. Exactly.

Now if the fortune cookie could just convey its wisdom to President Obama, Arne Duncan, Mayor Bloomberg, Cathie Black...