Who is the Elite? Christianity, Education, and America
Comparing how the Founders, versus today's elites, were formed.
“As the shared understanding of the most important things eroded, what made one elite in America became… less and less about the excellence of virtue and more and more about the excellence of technical expertise.”
Exploring the problem of elite education today versus the education of the founding generation of Americans, Vice President of Education and Editor of The American Mind Matthew Peterson delivered the 2019 Commencement Address at Providence Christian College.
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