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105: The Case for a Liberal Education (In the Post-Industrial Age)
Bring Back the Liberal Education (for the Post-Industrial Age)
Our schools were built to make dependable factory workers: bells, compliance, one right answer. That model made sense in 1900—but the factory is gone and the incentives that shaped “industrial education” are still with us. In this episode, I argue for bringing back a liberal education—not as nostalgia, but as the most practical toolkit for the Augmentation Age.
We trace how mass urbanization and child labor concerns led to school as factory—rewarding smart conformists while sidelining creativity, judgment, and inquiry. Then we…
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