A case for Classics
Eager minds are being failed by a smug and short-sighted cultural establishment
The Critic • Alexandra Wilson
What happens when a rich inheritance is quietly withdrawn—until only a few can still reach it? This piece traces the steady disappearance of classical learning from common schooling, and the strange cultural forces that now dismiss what they have already helped to make rare. It raises a pressing question for parents and educators alike: whether a living connection to the past can be recovered before it is lost to most altogether.
