The implosion of our educational system poses many dangers, perhaps the most pernicious being that the lessons of the past are a sealed book for most elected officials. Perhaps it has even been thus. I doubt if Washington or Lincoln ever read Thucydides, for example, but they had men around them who had. Now we have men and women around elected leaders who may have heard the name in a college trivia game. And our leaders lack the education, or the character, to discern the counsel of wise men from that of wise guys.
Hm. And social media seems especially designed nowadays to stir up haste and passion on the regular.
Which begins to explain much about modern politics and madness.
They’re garbage people and only capable of garbage outputs.
Did you hear what Beijing Biden’s puppeteers are lying about today?
My father went through only the 8th grade of school. There was a farm to take care of, and he had to help his father, my grandfather. That was back in the days when automobiles were first coming out. He never got to have decent education. So when he had children, he made sure we paid attention to our studies in school. I was the only one of the four kids to have any facility with ancient languages, so when I took Latin in high school and Greek from a volunteer tutor (perhaps persuaded by my Dad), like the task master that he was, he would sit in his easy chair in the living room with his King James Bible (I was brought up Pentecostal) watching over me doing my Latin or Greek homework on the kitchen table (clearly visible from where he would sit). Then he would have me read to him whatever I was translating. That’s how I learned St. John’s Gospel, and how I learned Cicero, Seneca and Virgil. I hated being watched over at the time. But I love my father (who I am sure is with the Lord). He gave me what he never had the opportunity to have: In Catalinam, De Officiis, De Providentia, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, etc. I am re-reading De Natura Deorum now all because of him.
Today kids are done educated into imbecility.