C.S.Lewis was earlier still with The Abolition of Man
Progressive education, where twisted to serve Cultural Marxism, produces a hybrid trousered apes (from the Abolition of Man) and Pilgrim’s Regress savage dwarves. The red dwarves in particular. It has done so within a “culture” increasingly able to muster little more moral clarity, artistic merit or chastity than the Cleavers of Pilgrim’s Regress.
The Left is focused on the success of the “other” and the failure of the “we”, purveyors of cultural, national and even civilizational suicide. Cultural Marxism can produce nothing else. They have filled the land with innocent blood.
There is a reason why scum like Bill Ayers went into teaching teachers. Every individual whose degree he signed off on should be forbidden to go anywhere near a classroom. Same with those his desciples taught.
Thanks for the suggestion. The Abolition of Man Is now on my list.
The thing that makes Ayn Rand’s essay unique is that she is not espousing educational philosophy, which many people do, including her.
She is deconstructing and destroying somebody else’s educational philosophy. She shows there is nothing accidental or benign in Progressive education. It is lethal at its core, and intentionally so.