Posted on 08/19/2009 5:12:42 PM PDT by wintertime
Yes, academic decay is but a consequence of the prime problem -- the godles humanistic worldview of modern mass education. It is illumninating to read this essay by John Dewey, one of the architects of modern humanistic education. He explains the "new logical outlook", where the "old questions" about meaning and purpose which everyone wonders about are rendered irrelevant by humanistic cultural fiat. The idea, then, is not to teach people that there is no meaning or no purpose to life, but to brainwash them in a way so that they never ask or think about meaning and purpose. That is quite sinister.
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