There is a proper way to educate and there is a proper way to govern, and they are both known. Today we do these things in a different way, which presents a serious and perhaps fatal problem for our country. But repair is possible.
Discover the means of repairing both education and government today in Liberty and Learning: The Evolution of American Education.
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Liberty and Learning: The Evolution of American Education
FROM LARRY P. ARNN
Larry P. Arnn
No work is more important than the rebirth of liberty and learning, with each—in the words of James Madison, the Father of the Constitution—“leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support.”
Today local matters are subject to intricate and detailed central control. The waste resulting from this system is massive, but it is not the worst thing. The worst thing is the spirit and direction of that control. The passion that animates it is destructive of the highest and best things in the tradition of American education. It makes war directly upon them.
— Larry P. Arnn, 12th president of Hillsdale College
