Common Core’s Rotten Core, pt. 2 – Undercutting ‘Moral Imagination’

As an essentially anarchical trait it has historically been the driving force behind violent revolution and social upheaval. GK Chesterton saw the Diabolic Imagination at work in the barbarism of Prussian society on the eve of WWI and it was starkly apparent in the recent Boston bombings.

Parents and teachers who understand the traditional purpose for studying great literature is to form the Moral Imagination (by accessing notions of objective Truth and Beauty as well as the collected wisdom of the ages) should be left with a healthy sense of skepticism regarding the motivations of the educational faddists who would seek to impede this study. Only the most callous activists, blinded by political ideology or egotism, would knowingly seek to separate young people from the benefits of their rich cultural inheritance.

Image: Edmund Burke; http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/govt/welliott/teachers/burke.htm; public domain/ copyright expired