tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701878382459611272.post1284706197683096807..comments2023-08-15T06:32:58.350-05:00Comments on Philosophy KTL: Economy of TraditionAmos Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00262758674894498892noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701878382459611272.post-13423735868512309262010-06-10T20:35:47.287-05:002010-06-10T20:35:47.287-05:00*unlikeliness THAT languages in as little...*
The...*unlikeliness THAT languages in as little...*<br /><br />The unsettling question you bring to light is HOW a generation can be made to know the necessity of something it lacks before it succumbs to a state authority which uses their weakness as an occasion to grab power. Ay there's the rub.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00285479445399293635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-701878382459611272.post-81582256254244259052010-06-10T08:00:33.628-05:002010-06-10T08:00:33.628-05:00The education which can save a democracy, perhaps ...The education which can save a democracy, perhaps it can be said (and didn't one of the ancients say it?), is not necessarily the kind of education which a democracy by its natural tendency will impart a desire for in its citizens. I didn't mean anything terribly serious by "Greek will do" but in the process of learning Greek some students will excel while others lag. How are we to treat the situation? The egalitarian tendency is twofold (aside from the unlikeliness of languages in as little demand as Latin and Greek--the inherent benefits whereof to be treated separately, by someone else--be offered in the first place), and we have seen the fruition of both: first, the sinkers and swimmers will be kept together too long, and second, the methods of liberal education will rather more make the sinkers think themselves better than they are than let the swimmers be as good as they can be. One surveys with regret a general absence of rods. That is to say, liberalism in any kind of noble sense does not naturally instill the discipline and strength of mind whereby it came into practical being, but rather, by slow increments, a kind of slackness by which "liberal" has come to its current state of degeneracy.Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00285479445399293635noreply@blogger.com