I think this one takes on a little too much. If I didn't already have too many things I wanted to read this week, I'd go to the source, but for now, I'm most interested by the bits you referenced about the early schooling of the Victorians.
I note that humans seem to be this weird mix of rationality and emotion and while some few of us seem to be mostly rational, the vast majority (in which I count myself) find our life heavily affected by emotions.
So, I wonder if an education that emphasizes a certain set of emotional ideals (embodied in how the Victorian classicists portrayed the ancients) doesn't give people tools to work with their emotions in ways that our more rational STEM-worshipping education methods lacks.
Knowing how to wield your emotions, or maybe more accurately, having useful structures in which to pour your emotions, might actually lead to quite a bit of success. And what we do now, the DSM-we-understand-everything-emotions-are-just-chemicals-theres-no-such-thing-as-glory approach, leaves most of us with no way to usefully harness our emotions toward achieving greatness.
I think this one takes on a little too much. If I didn't already have too many things I wanted to read this week, I'd go to the source, but for now, I'm most interested by the bits you referenced about the early schooling of the Victorians.
I note that humans seem to be this weird mix of rationality and emotion and while some few of us seem to be mostly rational, the vast majority (in which I count myself) find our life heavily affected by emotions.
So, I wonder if an education that emphasizes a certain set of emotional ideals (embodied in how the Victorian classicists portrayed the ancients) doesn't give people tools to work with their emotions in ways that our more rational STEM-worshipping education methods lacks.
Knowing how to wield your emotions, or maybe more accurately, having useful structures in which to pour your emotions, might actually lead to quite a bit of success. And what we do now, the DSM-we-understand-everything-emotions-are-just-chemicals-theres-no-such-thing-as-glory approach, leaves most of us with no way to usefully harness our emotions toward achieving greatness.