But Ravitch's book reveals that as necessary as these changes may be, revitalizing our schools ultimately depends more on
restoring liberal education to its rightful place at the center of the American curriculum and breaking the grip of harmful progressive ideas (particularly the progressive antipathy to subject matter) on educational policy and practice.
Not exact matches
For our efforts to go beyond such survival - mode, and to actually do what conservative pundits are calling for, depend a great upon a broader reform movement to
restore genuine
liberal education to the general curriculum and to give its champions real power.
I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher
education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of
liberal studies points toward the need to
restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.
They have created and run organizations aimed at
restoring a classical
liberal arts
education for students of all ages.