Man's lust for power, not truth, feeds modern education. But this fact does not worry the educator.
~David Hicks, Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education
p.8
Last night, dh and i began watching an old movie entitled
Gods & Generals
, based on the book
Gods and Generals
by Jeff Shaara. In this movie (which at this point seems a bit stilted to me- and the beards are just terrible...) there is a very interesting quote from Stonewall Jackson. He says in essence that Lincoln sending troops into the South was the mark of the end of freedom and the triumph of commerce over truth. I don't know if Jackson actually said that or not, but it resonates with this idea from Hicks. Oh, for the little cottage school and home school where funding and politics and power are not the source of curricular decisions! I really despair for the children of this age who are forced to navigate in such shallow waters, never learning better or deeper!
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