Sorting Out the World

IN an essay called "The Education of an Amphibian," [1] written, evidently, just a few years ago, the late Aldous Huxley presented enough solid matter in about twenty pages on the subject of what's wrong with education today to balance several volumes of the usual bleary comment this question calls up. Along the way in the essay is plenty of grist for an AA's mill; you don't have to be an educator to enjoy Huxley, even on education. What struck me particularly, all of a heap, as they say, and several days after I read it at that--I think I was waiting for my wife in a supermarket parking lot when the idea rushed down on me at last with all its importance--was a proscription against sorting the world out into what I like and what I don't like.