Teaching under the cult of innovation (Berry)
May 29th, 2007 | Published in Progress, History, Education, Quotes, Culture | 1 Comment
Teaching cannot do well under the cult of innovation. Devotion to the new enforces a devaluation and dismissal of the old, which is necessarily the subject of teaching…. And here we meet a strange and difficult question that may be uniquely modern: Can the past be taught, can it even be known, by people who have no respect for it?
–Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000), 65
May 30th, 2007 at 12:55 am (#)
Good quote. Great question!