Should Everyone Be Educated? | Episode 22
New Humanists
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The Virtue of the Course of Study
i want to disagree with you about the virtue of thing. In great schools, kids are doing, how many subjects? They're doing, tens of subjects. The formation is why these subjects s far. He's making the argument we criticise, which is, you should learn latin because it's a good mental work out. And so that is an instrumental argument. But it's instrumental, and es towards what towards the more important thing, which is formation. When you have homer and plato and aristotle and sophocles and live and cicero and caesar and virgil in your bones, then you are looking at the tawdry character of american capitalism and
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