Expansion and Decay in British Education

The degradation of the democratic dogma is at work in Britain as much as anywhere in the world. Education is a good thing, the public feels vaguely; superior people generally are educated thoroughly; therefore educate everyone thoroughly, and everybody will be superior to everybody else.

This is the British equivalent of what Dr. Ernest van den Haag calls “America’s secular religion” of educationism. It is part and parcel of that dim and dreary Future of Education described by Dr. Thomas Molnar in his mordant little book. “Education” is expected to make everybody happy and rich and good. Away with the bad old notion that higher education was for people oi higher talents.

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The degradation of the democratic dogma is at work in Britain as much as anywhere in the world. Education is a good thing, the public feels vaguely; superior people generally are educated thoroughly; therefore educate everyone thoroughly, and everybody will be superior to everybody else.

This is the British equivalent of what Dr. Ernest van den Haag calls “America’s secular religion” of educationism. It is part and parcel of that dim and dreary Future of Education described by Dr. Thomas Molnar in his mordant little book. “Education” is expected to make everybody happy and rich and good. Away with the bad old notion that higher education was for people oi higher talents.