Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.
The Doors of Perception
Frases do livro
As Portas da Percepção
Aldous Huxley
Título original
The Doors of Perception
(Inglês, 1954)
As Portas da Percepção é um livro de 1954, escrito por Aldous Huxley, onde o autor pormenoriza as suas experiências alucinatórias quando tomou mescalina. O título provém de uma citação de William Blake: