“Here we see that a key purpose of education is a fundamentally conservative – or preservative – one. Education should preserve and transmit the past so that cultural memory is lengthened, and so that descendants will not be left to rediscover human truths already endured and expressed by eloquent forebears.”

“Here we see that a key purpose of education is a fundamentally conservative – or preservative – one. Education should preserve and transmit the past so that cultural memory is lengthened, and so that descendants will not be left to rediscover human truths already endured and expressed by eloquent forebears.”

— Tracy Lee Simmons