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Hegel's views on education seem to mirror policy (almost 1:1) in the U.S. Perhaps, if only because the Prussian education system was imported into our culture, by our Founding Robber Baron fathers.

Unfortunately, It'll be hard to go against his views, since they've been baked into almost every child's subconscious as "this is just how life is."




Interesting. Could you give an example of education policy that can be traced to Hegel's views?


I cannot.

I can only make observations that Hegel's writings on education mirror the realities of U.S. public (and most private) schools -- if only because he was a teacher in the "Prussian System," (itself, a reactionary thing born of Frederick William III's loss of face from losing to Napoleon) and thus his views were molded by his culture and the time he lived in.

I don't think Hegel really had any say in the matter -- or was that popular (or even heard of) among policymakers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Only that he is a window into the soul (or rather its destruction) of his nation at the time.




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