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I can agree that the world we currently live in was shaped by that classical education, but from my perspective the world is now ran by business majors, not peo

I can agree that the world we currently live in was shaped by that classical education, but from my perspective the world is now ran by business majors, not people who've read Plato or Aquinas untranslated. Scholars aren't just scholars anymore, they must specialize in something before the world recognizes them. This is what I mean when I say we don't "use" the classical education anymore - it has become the exception, not the rule it once was.

52-6F-62 3y ago
On the surface, sure. It hasn't gone anywhere. The ideas derived from classical educations (read: not as career scholars, but initiated into that frame of understanding) are what define the shape of power. Hell, Putin has a chaos magician (Dugin—shades of Rasputin) leading the shape of his global politics...