{"id":1570,"date":"2023-03-15T08:59:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/the-purpose-of-schooling\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T08:59:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:59:21","slug":"the-purpose-of-schooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/the-purpose-of-schooling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose of Schooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">According to Anthony Esolen,<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The purpose of schooling<\/strong>\u2014which is not the same as education\u2014is to encourage people to express confident platitudes, which they are pleased to call their opinions, about things they know nothing of. This is far worse than ignorance.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Esolen is (usually) a good writer and a clear thinker who often communicates important truths. So why does he begin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisismagazine.com\/opinion\/overschooled-and-undereducated\">his essay<\/a> so irresponsibly? Journalistic responsibility requires that the writer not tamper with the established meanings of words and phrases. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/schooling\">Merriam-Webster<\/a>.) That&#39;s what wokesters do, as witness their hijacking&#0160; of the word &#39;equity.&#39; (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/equity\">Merriam-Webster<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Has Esolen suffered a reverse-<em>metanoia<\/em>? I rather doubt it.&#0160; Am I being overly punctilious? I don&#39;t think so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Once again, <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/language-matters\/\">language matters!<\/a>&#0160; (587 entries and counting) Dismounting my high horse, I now return to ruminating over modal collapse arguments against the doctrine of divine simplicity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Anthony Esolen, The purpose of schooling\u2014which is not the same as education\u2014is to encourage people to express confident platitudes, which they are pleased to call their opinions, about things they know nothing of. This is far worse than ignorance.&#0160; Esolen is (usually) a good writer and a clear thinker who often communicates important &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/15\/the-purpose-of-schooling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Purpose of Schooling&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}