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Humboldt's Ghost, Pt 1: Origins of our 200 year-old public education system

Sep 19, 202454 min
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Two hundred years ago, Wilhelm von Humboldt created the public education system as we know it today. At the heart of his philosophy of education was the concept of Bildung — reaching one's inner potential. Yet over the years, as his public education system was adopted, Bildung may well have been the critical piece left out. *This is part one of a two-part series.

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