There is no challenge more important or urgent today than the education of the young. Specifically, the great three-part question of our time is: by whom, in what, and how are our children to be educated?
This question has, of course, been a principal concern of philosophers throughout history. Socrates, for instance, captured something central to the human experience when he asked rhetorically in Book II of Plato’s Republic, “Don’t you know that the beginning is most important part of every work and that this is especially so with anything young and tender? For at that stage it’s most plastic, and each thing assimilates itself to the model who stamp anyone wishes to give to it.”
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