{"id":993,"date":"2017-08-06T09:56:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T13:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakeramitchell.com\/?p=993"},"modified":"2017-08-06T09:56:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T13:56:05","slug":"how-a-generation-lost-its-common-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/06\/how-a-generation-lost-its-common-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Generation Lost Its Common Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/politicalscience.nd.edu\/faculty\/faculty-list\/patrick-deneen\/\">Patrick Deneen, F<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindingthecampus.org\/2016\/02\/how-a-generation-lost-its-common-culture\/\">ebruary 2, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My students are know-nothings. They are exceedingly nice, pleasant, trustworthy,<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_994\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/deneen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-994\" class=\"size-full wp-image-994\" src=\"https:\/\/bakeramitchelljr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/deneen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Patrick Deneen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>mostly honest, well-intentioned, and utterly decent. But their brains are largely empty, devoid of any substantial knowledge that might be the fruits of an education in an inheritance and a gift of a previous generation. They are the culmination of western civilization, a civilization that has forgotten nearly everything about itself, and as a result, has achieved near-perfect indifference to its own culture.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>[Ed.] The title and opening paragraph above were copied from here at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindingthecampus.org\/2016\/02\/how-a-generation-lost-its-common-culture\/\">mindingthecampus.org <\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0I urge you to read the article in its entirety. \u00a0Because of the loss of the knowledge of our culture, Dr. Deneen foresees its collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, his observations\u00a0reflect the true state of education in most schools,\u00a0but it is the goal of The Roger Bacon Academy&#8217;s classical curriculum \u00a0to impart the\u00a0history of civilization to our students in the hope of avoiding his predicted collapse. Else\u00a0that\u00a0some may carry the the seeds of our culture across the abyss to germinate and grow\u00a0anew on the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0\u00a0Patrick Deneen, February 2, 2016 My students are know-nothings. They are exceedingly nice, pleasant, trustworthy, mostly honest, well-intentioned, and utterly decent. But their brains are largely empty, devoid of any substantial knowledge that might be the fruits of an education in an inheritance and a gift of a previous generation. 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