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then of course the education is not better, although much smoother and softer than the education to a totalitarian ideal. It is in both cases the education to the impossibility to say No!
This form of education to adjustment is always going on, and expresses itself in all the little symbols which appear in movie and television, in music, in slogans, in little changes of the language, in little symbols produced by the arts which are communicated. And everybody is influenced by them, and it is hard to say No to it.
But now, there is perhaps another form, another answer possible – an answer in which introduction is given – the third type of education beyond technical schools and humanistic development of potentialities – which I called the introductory type; namely introducing into a group which by its very nature unites concrete symbols with the necessity of protest. For me this is the meaning of a Protestant education, which does not necessarily have to be done by the Protestant churches, although it should be done by them, but it can be done also by other agents – home, schools, universities, etc. It is the introduction into something which is in itself possible only if the spirit of protest is preserved, and that's what we call Protestantism ...
Now here we come to a point which needs a little more discussion of what I would understand when I use the word “Protestantism.” If you take “Protestantism” as another religion beside the Catholic religions and beside the non-Christian religions, in which there are special liturgies, special sum of doctrines, a special form of ethics, and a social structure called a church, which is not the Roman church but another church – then of course Protestantism