Peter RuddFiled under: brave new world | Tags: america, Bertrand Russell, civics, teachers, teaching, The Functions of a Teacher, Unpopular Essays
In case you wondered why: the complete cynicism, the lack of public ideals, the acquiescence, the inability to combat evils:
There is in America a subject called civics, in which, perhaps more than in any other, the teaching is expected to be misleading. The young are taught a sort of copybook account of how public affairs are supposed to be conducted, and are carefully shielded from all knowledge as to how in fact they are conducted. When they grow up and discover the truth, the result is too often a complete cynicism in which all public ideals are lost; whereas if they had been taught the truth carefully and with proper comment at an earlier age they might have become men able to combat evils in which, as it is, they acquiesce with a shrug.
The Functions of a Teacher, Umpopular Essays, Bertrand Russell
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