Education must be oriented to the cultivation of wisdom and virtue in the very present souls of actual people living in real times and places

Four Corruptions of the Classical Tradition

By Andrew Kern

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A liberal education was one rooted in the seven liberal arts, the arts of free people, not general arts, the arts of a confused people.

We'll do well to distinguish classical education from utilitarian, philological, imperial, or "liberal" education. 

In varying degrees, each has much to offer. 

But until an education is oriented to the cultivation of wisdom and virtue in the very present souls of actual people living in real times and places, it cannot be happily measured against the classical ideal.

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