What We Really Need Is a 490 B.C. Project

The state of teaching of the classical world in American education is sadly wanting.

 
Before 1776 A.D., before 1619, before 1492, before A.D., there was 490 B.C. and the Battle of Marathon, which freed Athens to found our civilization. Obviously, this date and occasion deserve study and remembrance. Indeed, Thomas Jefferson argued in his Notes on the State of Virginia (1785) that the main goal of education in a democracy is to enable the people to defend their liberty, and that Greek, Roman, and English history is the subject that best equips citizens to do so. Edith Hall, Gaisford lecturer at Oxford University, has added that such a defense of liberty requires “utopian thinking, fearlessness about innovation, critical thinking, and the ability to argue cogently.” All can be learned, she wrote, from the “succinct, entertaining formulations in the works of the Greeks.”

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