I think the news in education matters is what emerges as follow-on to the public-private mega-institution built out on, essentially, a mix of Prussian and Sorbonne assumptions. I think the emerging appears closer to the 18th Century Scottish model: close to home, classicist (Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and for some Arabic), STEM, dependent on primary sources, and with a vastly shortened front, contemplating only the practical skills and knowledge: Theology, Medicine, Military Arts, Law, Pedagogy.
This will entail massive bonfires and landfills of books, the dreck from a superfluity of persons living under publish or perish.
Forget the school. Focus on the schooling. Take the schooling to the student. Do not take the student to the school.
School is a verb, not a noun.
If he has a point, it is at best a quarter of one. And behind a pay wall. And he uses the word nativist as an opprobrious epithet. In my experience, only Rand Corp / CIA types and their wannabes use that word so. It packs a load of sententious spite, which is unbecoming.
A full point would have brought Hamburger to describe an American system of education stood up after the next Hercules washes out the Augean Stables that still self-promote, obdurately and without grace, as the American system of education. Or in other words, how does American schooling look after Horace Mann.
Harvard University and Loudoun County Public Schools are Augean Stables ante-Hercules, not institutions of learning.
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Why are the denizens of the deep sea so happy? Because they have water all around them. They cannot survive for even a second outside it. Even when they have perforce to come out of the water, they struggle frantically to reach it again, for the disaster will bring about death itself. So too, when one is immersed in peace, one will experience the joy and exhilaration of that state, in all ways. A person who has tasted that, can never tolerate even for a second the state of peacelessness and will never desert the peaceful stage. If it ever happens that one is forced into peacelessness, one will struggle furiously and desperately to return to the state of peace and might even die in the attempt. But why should such a person ever be thrown on the shore of peacelessness? One can be ever in a state of bliss, immersed in the ocean of peace, can’t one? One should not float on the upper waves of impulses and intentions. One must dive deeper and try to revel at the calmer levels.