From the Daily Mail: Drop 'middle-class' academic subjects says schools adviser: -- "The professor believes the origins of our subject-based education system can be traced back to 19th century middle-class values. "
My comment:
The professor can "believe" anything he wants, but what does he know? If he knew the Seven Liberal Arts, he would trace their origin a lot further back than the 19th century to the Middle Ages. The first three, the Trivium, taught students to think - Grammar to put thoughts in order, Logic to assure those thoughts were consistent, and Rhetoric to convey sound thoughts to others and analyze theirs. Absent this understanding, the professor has a degree, but dangerously little education.
Most teachers are just students who passed organized hoop-jumping. Certainly things must change, but not this way. For instance, democracy is taught as "majority rules" when it really codifies the humility that we just might be wrong, and society with others helps discover where. Medieval scholars taught that, too.
Relativist claptrap doesn't work. Don't buy it.
