"There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young"

Darrin Moore - "There are few things more dishonorable than...

• "There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. . . . We’re raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional… They’re being taught that it’s important to have views, and they’re not being taught that it’s important to know what you’re talking about." — Thomas Sowell
• "The gap between the culture acquired spontaneously by the young, and that which should be imparted in the university, is so cavernously wide that the teacher is apt to look ridiculous, as he perches on his theatrical pinnacle and beckons the youth across to it. Indeed, it is easier to make the passage the other way, to join your young audience in the enchanted field of popular entertainment, and turn your intellectual guns on the stately ruin across the chasm. Increasingly, therefore, modern intellectuals define their position as one outside the high culture to which they owe their status. Their task, they claim, is not to propagate Western culture, but to question its assumptions, to undermine its authority, and to liberate young people from the 'structures'." ~Roger Scruton in his chapter on the predominance of the youth culture, 'Yoofanasia' in his book 'Modern Culture'...

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