Custody and Courtship of Experience

Throughout most of the history of Western civilization Christianity and Classical ideals played a dominant part in education. In most western countries however this is no longer the case. In modern pluralist Democracies church influence struggles with pervasive influences from elsewhere for the hearts and minds of the public. Educational policy remains however an instrument to be used by major power groups and in many countries has become to a greater or lesser extent an active or unwitting accomplice in furthering acquisitiveness and the accumulation of material advantage.