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We Have Forgotten What Education Is Really For
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We Have Forgotten What Education Is Really For

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.

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