From as far back as there are written records, each generation has been trained in the wisdom of the culture. In ancient Egypt, the copybook served as the priestly students’ summary of the tradition. Kipling’s poem, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” (1919), is an eloquent testimony to the power of the copybook in times past, and also to the truths that modern man has forgotten by substituting textbooks for copybooks. The textbook is the reigning elite’s means of establishing a common world-and-life view among the young. What the textbook contains is not so important as what it leaves out. … Continue reading Public Schools vs. the South