Comparably, it is a school’s task to help guide students toward truth in order to give them the best opportunity to continue seeking and following it. Of course, students can choose to ignore instruction or trample over the truth to follow their own passions, but they will at least be aware of its presence and may one day choose to return to it, having once established the prerequisite habits. The majority of public schools, however, do not begin from proper first principles. They emphasize no truth but only skills to obtain jobs and wealth, and unfortunately—unless one is knocked off his horse and redirected—these wealth-hungry students will have no moral mooring on which to base their actions. Too often schools aim to produce kings of robbers and wolves rather than virtuous stable boys.
By Andrew Jimenez|June 3rd, 2020