In Norms and Nobility, David Hicks considers the traditions of classical education and describes the fairly uniform understanding, among educators from the classical era, of what they hoped to achieve: “The purpose of education is not the assimilation of facts or the retention of information, but the habituation of the mind and body to will and act in accordance with what one knows.” This idea, that education is more about doing what is right rather than merely knowing information, is founded on a long tradition. When our knowledge is transformed into action, it becomes virtue, and virtue was
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