Are We Being Herd?

Is Eton open? Or are they not part of the herd?

If nothing else, this year has shown that state secondary education, at least, exists primarily as "somewhere to put them while their parents are at work".

The short days, the long holidays and the sacrosanct weekends are there to provide enough time in which to get an education despite the encumbrance of having to go to school as well. And my, have they been taking that opportunity to get an education in recent years.

In particular, it is now time to harness the righteous rage against deindustrialisation, and against the harvesting of young men in endless and pointless wars, on the part of the young men who have discovered for themselves the traditional Great Books and the various schools of heterodox economics. 

Those Books and those schools have always been fundamental to the radical change of which those young men are now the vanguard, just as similarly formed young men were the vanguard of the American Revolution.