The education system we are all most familiar with—a system that employs compulsory, age-graded, full-time instruction in a government institution—is actually a fairly recent approach to education, and in many ways, is no education at all.
It’s social conditioning for the modern industrialized state. If you are surprised by the recent events surrounding the American public education system (i.e., introduction of CRT, COVID closures, co-ed bathrooms, etc), you may be even more shocked to discover that this kind of social conditioning has been the goal all along. I’m saying, “We’ve Been Schooled!”
Consider how those educated in the modern public school system tend to possess a utilitarian worldview, materialistic values, and a strong dependency on formal institutions. From the very beginning, this was the outcome those who employed the modern system hoped to achieve: docile citizens who function as cogs and consumers in an industrialized state.
Prior to introducing the militarized Prussian model to the American education system, free men and women—like the American founders—received a liberal arts education, an education that cultivates the life of the mind, fosters virtue and wisdom, and has for its aim the pursuit of goodness, truth, and beauty.
Learn more about goals and modes of education in this animated short film, “We’ve Been Schooled!”
This video is brought to you by Kepler Education, online classes by classical, Christian, conservative teachers whose motto is to “Empower families by liberating teachers.” https://kepler.education
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