Revitalized Education

If we think of four philosophies of learning as suggested by Peter Lawler (Modern Age, Winter 2014) as the following: Aristocratic Platonism---contemplation is for the few, action or work is for the many. The libertarian middle-class view that work is for us all and contemplation is self-indulgent illusion. The politically correct view of the liberal professors that it is enough to be against racism, sexism, classism and heterosexism, and that all other values are completely relative. And the conservative (and Christian) view that both work and contemplation are for us all......I would choose the last one, the conservative, classical liberal view of education, but it needs reform, or revitalization.

We don't need to tear down conservatism and Christianity and start from scratch, but conservative and religious education needs to prominently include the science of sociobiology, which can relate to the old Aristotelian concept of seeing nature as defined by the ends it is meant to achieve. We are meant to evolve toward Godhood, the God first seen only inwardly as the symbolic experience of the Godhood reached in the Outward Path of material/supermaterial evolution. This in turn leads to a  revitalized political conservatism and the Ethnopluralism Hypothesis, which affirms a decentralized America (and other parts of the world  for that matter) with states and regions as ethnic conclaves, which can be accommodated by the originally decentralizing U.S. Constitution.  This could truly conserve us all.