Peter Kreeft on Education

Society should prepare its members for death; if it cannot do that, it cannot prepare them for life. This is the fundamental task of education, and it is totally and fatally refused by modernity’s educational establishment. We know more and more about less and less. We dare not teach anything worth teaching—wisdom, morality, and religion. If the reasons for this are political—if pluralistic democracy is incompatible with learning true wisdom—then by all means and for the sake of saving our children’s souls, let us quickly sweep away pluralistic democracy.