Sorry!
I am a person who is passionate about education.
I'm not referring to schooling, nor am I agreeing with our modern definition of "education" as "the process of getting our next generation ready to earn a good salary."
If you think the most serious problem facing todays K12 students is whether or not they will earn a good salary you can either keep reading with your lips sealed tight or you can go away. As someone who is interested in education, I love a good discussion. If you're here to see about job preparation for the next generation, you're not able to participate in a "good discussion" anyway.
This idea that education is for "job preparedness" came upon our society as the GI Bill sent tens of thousands of unprepared young men and women to college, without the proper attitudes, without the proper background about "knowledge" and "broadness", but the price was right (college suddenly was free to so many of them) and white collar jobs were suddenly available for the improvement of blue-collar men.
You, too, could go from "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" to "Leave It to Beaver" ... and completely without the benefit of Plato or Milton.
Well, the education I'm talking about was a Classical education. The kind you only get at Catholic colleges, or those nasty old conservative colleges named after nasty old conservative Protestant ministers. NOT job-training centres. NOT centres of cultural relativism, but an education in our own culture, yes, Western culture.
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