QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Tue 23rd April 2013, 9:06pm)
Education is about encountering the absurd (or what we think is absurd) and trying to understand it. When I was studying to be a teacher, we were taught that people learn best when confronted with a contradiction and forced to reconcile what they thought to be true with the latest truth. But then, how can you separate an absurdity from a fact? Camus seems to be talking about philosophical "natural selection." Nature will eventually kill off absurdity and leave only truth?
I'm not sure if that is what Camus is going for, but that's what came to my mind.