"What Happened To Classical Education?" 2/2

"But the tenor of the time, the spirit of the age, the city’s genius was oriented toward being American more than it was toward being wise and virtuous.

Around 1900, a mixed shift occured in which education was oriented toward the economy but with a deep moral veneer rooted in a new, Hegelian/Darwinian conception of human nature. This was the Protean form we know as Progressivism. There is much that is wonderful and insightful in Progressive education, but in the end it becomes an ironic form that contends for a sort of free individual that requires an overpowering state to achieve its ends." ...

Part 1: https://circeinstitute.org/blog/what-happened-classical-education-part-1-introduction/

Part 2: https://circeinstitute.org/blog/what-happened-classical-education-part-2/

Part 3: https://circeinstitute.org/blog/what-happened-classical-education-part-3/