"To avoid misunderstanding: it seems to me that conservatism, in the sense of conservation, is of the essence of educational activity, whose task is always to cherish and protect something--the child against the world, the world against the child, the new against the old, the old against the new."

- Hannah Arendt (1961)

Chesterton (1924): "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

Chesterton (1925): "It is obviously most unjust that the old believer should be forbidden to teach his old beliefs, while the new believer is free to teach his new beliefs."

Chesterton (1932): "The whole point of education is that it should give a man abstract and eternal standards, by which he can judge material and fugitive conditions."

Alexander the Weightless: "spk nglsh y dnchya th nu's whr zt"

Aristides the Aristocrat: "Education and tradition are crucially linked. Without tradition, education has no idea where it has come from and hence no idea where it is going. Without education, tradition remains a dead rather than a living abstraction capable of informing the soul, not with information, but with the love of learning. The dead bestow old wisdom on the new, and the living in turn bestow new life on the old."

[Arendt, Hannah. "The Crisis in Education." In her BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE: EIGHT EXERCISES IN POLITICAL THOUGHT, Viking Press, 1961.]