Education today ought to place many cultures and their shared heritage at its center

Evidence

Our education today should be concerned with the development of many cultures, in all their diversity; with the great ideas that inspire them and the texts in which those ideas are enshrined, with the achievements they made pos­ sible, and with the common heritage their followers and successors share. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1871

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Public schools should cultivate ethical thought about cultural patterns harming life — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 226; Classical education formed character by assimilating the European cultural past. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 358; Cultural tradition outside school, not the subject itself, does the educating — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 362 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Public schools should cultivate ethical thought about cultural patterns harming life — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 226; Classical education formed character by assimilating the European cultural past. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 358; Cultural tradition outside school, not the subject itself, does the educating — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 362 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Cultural tradition outside school, not the subject itself, does the educating #complicates (0.78) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 362
• Teachers must consciously impose their culture against pupils’ home culture #complicates (0.76) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 354