John Harris on Nov 11, 2013
Education is supposedly corrupting our kids into doubting their cultural heritage and the
very reality of moral truth; but did not the Founding Fathers know well that
the cost of blind trust is subjugation for the governed, and that
self-assurance is first cousin to tyranny in the governing?
I try always to obey the writer’s rule of thumb that one stay within what one
knows. (Not bad advice for anyone, really.) For me, at least in the Intellectual Conservative’s forum, that often means discussing our miserable education establishment and the young people I see trying to navigate it. This week was not short of material. Yet as I was about to start pecking out my weekly reflections (or enjoying my weekly
therapy, I should probably say), a workplace incident threw me back on my heels
and has continued to preoccupy me. Once my ideas had fermented for a day, I
realized that the two topics—my original choice and my moment of “office
shock”—were two sides of the same coin. I’ll see if I can credibly present them
as such.
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