The Banalization of Education

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The self-evident degradation of educational quality in our society today has several causes. But of all of them, there are three that most immediately come to mind.

Thomas Harrington

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Thomas S. Harrington, Senior Brownstone Scholar and Brownstone Fellow, is professor emeritus of Hispanic studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he taught for 24 years. His research is on Iberian movements of national identity and contemporary Catalan culture. His essays are published at Words in The Pursuit of Light.

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