We Have Forgotten What Education Is Really For
Britain’s schools are producing qualified workers, but fewer truly educated citizens rooted in history, culture and intellectual discipline.
Britain’s schools are producing qualified workers, but fewer truly educated citizens rooted in history, culture and intellectual discipline.
Recently published opinion and analysis.
Modern education has become obsessed with exams, careers and economic utility while neglecting the deeper purpose of learning itself. As Britain abandons classical liberal education, a generation is growing up increasingly detached from history, literature and the intellectual traditions that once sustained Western civilisation.