The Importance of Conserving Culture in Education

Education has tried to transmit culture in both senses of the word. We should certainly teach young people practical skills, but they must also take in our values,. ethical, intellectual and aesthetic. No system of education, formal or informal, can exist value free. Even if children and adolescents were taught only technical nohow, such teaching would reveal the parts in the play we have assigned them. The greeks and romans made sure to teach their offspring not only practical skill, for along they made them memorize poetry commemorating the deeds of their mythological and historical heroes. They filled their children's minds with useless information by rote with one purpose among others, to make them members of a