Education is “inherently a historical project” because it’s the generational passing down of culture. This “transmission of culture,” or classical liberal education, has been eroded over the past century, however, explains Andrew Zwerneman, president of Cana Academy. “The first major assault came with the progressivist movement which increasingly divorced education from religion and increasingly made education a matter of utility. So students weren’t learning what they had inherited. They were learning for the immediate problem before them.”
Mr. Zwerneman, When I read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” the second time, I read it as a satire on the nonchalance of slavery. This helped me understand why it took a Civil War and a 100 years to start to understand what it is to be human.