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The Demise of Classical Education and Where We Are Now
The minds of youth today have a serious problem, and it's rooted in the demise of classical education. With the loss of classical education, we have also been robbed of the values, visions, and ideas of Rome and Greece. It was these values and ideas that shaped Western civilization and our nation.
Ironically, these are the ideas that have come under scrutiny in our own universities. Very few people in America know about the origins of the West in ancient Greece.
Knowing these ethical theories and philosophies are vital to understanding and maintaining the freedoms we cherish. Sadly, Americans are moving further and further away from them.
It is important that we remember the Greek wisdom that has helped build our nation.
We applied many of these philosophies into our governmental make-up: a constitutional government, individual rights, freedom of expression, an open economy, civilian control of the military, separation of religious and political authority, private property, free scientific inquiry, and open dissent. These are some of the things that we need now more than ever in our changing culture.
We should also bear in mind that the Greeks insisted on monitoring and tempering these freedoms with philanthropy, civic responsibility, and an absolute world view.
The Greeks did not believe that life was rosy; instead, they saw it as momentary and tragic. Concepts like this along with self-criticism kept things in check.
With the demise of classical education, we lose a complete way of seeing the world. We instead see the world through new lenses that paints everything with moral relativism, therapeutics, blind allegiance, and worshiping a material culture.
The Greeks gave us the means to change the physical and spiritual universe, either for good or ill. They also provided the means for us to control our most animalistic instincts in order to give toward the common good.
We could stand by and hope that when the classics completely die, our children will get through the educational Dark Age and enter a new Greek era-- or we can fight the demise of classical education now.
If we want our children to thrive and drive off this threatening darkness, we need to find ways to teach our children to be independent thinkers who are thankful to the Greeks for what they modeled for Western civilization.
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