The Demise of Classical Education and Its Devastating Effects
Kayley Kenzie
There is a serious problem with the minds of young people today, and the demise of classical education is a direct cause. When classical education dies, so too do the ideas, visions, and values of classical Greece and Rome die with it. These ideas and values were what helped create Western civilization.
It's ironic that our own universities have begun scrutinizing these ideas, since very few people in America know about the West's origination in ancient Greece.
Our citizens are sadly moving further and further away from the vital philosophical and ethical theories that are so necessary; especially if we want to understand and maintain the freedoms that we enjoy.
It is important that we remember the Greek wisdom that has helped build our nation.
Many of the Greek philosophies became part of the way our government operates: The constitutional government, freedom of expression, individual rights, civilian control of the military, an open economy, separation of political and religious authority, free scientific inquiry, private property, and open dissent. We need these things now more than ever before in our changing world.
We need to also remember that the Greeks insisted that these freedoms be monitored and controlled by civic responsibility, philanthropy, 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 can only fight the demise of classical education, or hope that when classics fall, the educational Dark Age will bring our children into a New Greek era.
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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