You’re Going to Have to Educate Yourself | Intellectual Takeout

Let’s face it: we all have holes in our education.In part, this is because we can only fit so much into the years of our formal education.But the holes in our education are also due to the fact that we no longer have a standard canon of sources that we are expected to study in school.In the past, this canon served a unifying function among those in the Western world: it gave us a common lens through which to view the world, common terms for discourse, and a means to understand a common past.

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