中心思想提示：The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents and children are students together.
活到老，学到老。
Hoffer was born in 1898 in The Bronx, New York, to Knut and Elsa (Goebel) Hoffer. His parents were immigrants from Alsace (就是本册书第一课《最后一课》故事发生的地方),
then part of Imperial Germany. By age five, Hoffer could already read in both English and his parents' native German.
When he was five, his mother fell down the stairs with him in her arms. He later recalled, "I lost my sight at the age of seven.
Two years before, my mother and I fell down a flight of stairs. She did not recover and died in that second year after the fall.
I lost my sight and, for a time, my memory."
Eric Hoffer said: The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents and children are students together.
