{"id":251,"date":"2012-06-10T23:23:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T04:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=251"},"modified":"2012-06-10T23:25:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T04:25:03","slug":"education-as-the-remedy-for-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/06\/10\/education-as-the-remedy-for-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Education as the remedy for evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People by nature possess many common vices.\u00a0 We are born with a large measure of barbarity.\u00a0 Historic periods, peoples, undertakings have, as well, their own characteristic false morality and each individual man is fashioned by his own peculiar nature.\u00a0 Finally, we imprudent men have lapsed into the worst habits through this very morality.\u00a0 And unless a remedy is found for these evils, what, in the future, can be uncorrupted or enduring in the state?\u00a0 Therefore I regard it absolutely necessary to restore to the states the ancient education which will then destroy, group by group, whatever is evil in morals, nature, habit, age, opinion, or ability.\u00a0 For just as lawfully constituted states must have different kinds of artisans and artists, so they must have separate kinds of education.&#8221; Johann Sturm, \u201cThe Correct Opening of Elementary Schools of Letters (1538),\u201d trans. Lewis W. Spitz and Barbara Sher Tinsley, <em>Johann Sturm on Education<\/em> (CPH: St Louis, 1995), p. 71<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People by nature possess many common vices.\u00a0 We are born with a large measure of barbarity.\u00a0 Historic periods, peoples, undertakings have, as well, their own characteristic false morality and each individual man is fashioned by his own peculiar nature.\u00a0 Finally, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/06\/10\/education-as-the-remedy-for-evil\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,24,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-johann-sturm","category-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}