Education

Few in the contemporary American landscape would argue against the proposition that American education has lost its way. It has become much more about social engineering and the politics associated with it than it is about providing a quality education to citizens young and old. The Liberal Arts, which provided a successful educational model for almost two millennia in the western world, has been replaced with a parade of “research based” pedagogical strategies which resembles the ever-turning wheel of diet fads. The standards of educational research tend to be incredibly low, and most strategies are more driven by social and political agendas than establishing an

essential curriculum and the tools to learn it effectively. In addition, the gurus
overseeing these so-called progressive strategies are not career classroom educators, but those making a name and fortune for themselves. On this page I will discuss the essence and curricular imperatives established by the Liberal Arts and demonstrate how a return to these principles is the only chance modern educators have of recovery what we have lost.