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View submission: The Mental Gymnastics is Infuriating
We do need technical and trade training, but without the “softer” humanities (history, literature and art), we lose our character and soul. If we don’t know the “why,” hammering a nail gets pretty old. Richard Evans has a great series of books, written in the early 2000s, about Germany in the years just before, during and after Nazism. The Germans at that time focused on technical training at the loss of more classical education, and the Nazis found them just a little more pliable in their thinking/more adaptable to busting skulls. Technical training is great, but that alone does not make a good citizen or even a complete human being.
Comment by balletbee at 09/03/2025 at 03:27 UTC
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Right! Conservatives today talk like humanities education is some impractical liberal idea, but it’s an Enlightenment triumph brought to us by the founding fathers in imitation of Classical education… I thought conservatives were supposed to like all that!