Progressives, Education, Capitalism & Reality

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At Van's Blogodidact

Among other gems:

President Woodrow Wilson, as president of Princeton, summed up the leftist proregressive philosophy to the Federation of High School Teachers: "We want one class of persons to have a liberal education and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.", and Willard Givens, who would become executive secretary of the NEA in 1935 and serve for 17 years, who said "A dying laissez faire must be completely destroyed and all of us, including the owners, must be subjected to a large degree of social control. An equitable distribution of income will be sought, and the major function of the school is the social orientation of the individual. It must seek to give him understanding of the transition to a new social order. "

Humanities, in any meaningful sense, let alone Freedom, Liberty, Individual Responsibility, Individual Rights supported by Property Rights, and Liberal Government, will not survive that 'new social order'. As Abraham Lincoln noted, "The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.".

And that philosophy of progressivism had its philosophical roots in Kant, Hume, Rousseau and Descartes, and fools such as Slouka who unwittingly promote that philosophy's poison fruit as nutrition, will only speed its destruction by related means.

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