"Patristic, eh? Reminds me that just recently in correspondence with Stan
Aronowitz (a good friend and colleague) I was arguing that one problem with
much debate about educational values today is that a lot of it is covertly
influenced by long-standing assumptions embedded in religious worldviews,
but that the taboo against articulating these underlying arguments, and the
taboo against teaching students (and a generation later, faculty) about
religious views and their history, means that the assumptions go
unrecognized, or go underground, and we never really come to terms with
them. I was thinking of Mortimer Adler in the other conversation, but I'll
consider adding Illich to my examples!"
I wonder if perhaps this is a topic that deserves more serious discussion.
Has the exclusion of religious viewpoints from legimitate mainstream
discourse about education left a lot of people unable to articulate the
real reasons for their educational positions, and a lot of others unable to
properly assess and argue with positions whose most basic wellsprings
remain hidden or subtly elided?
JAY.
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JAY L. LEMKE
PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
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