The Huffington Post – Frank Breslin
“Students today grow up in such a distracted and meaningless world that, unless schools give them some idea of where we have come from as a cultural tradition, schools themselves run the risk of becoming part of that meaninglessness. Not that students need necessarily accept that tradition, but they should at least know what it is, understand its ideals and values, its foundations and wellsprings that for over 25 centuries have shaped and nourished the Western mind.”(more)