The Unconscientious Objectors
Illustration by The Free Press (classroom photo by Lambert/Getty Images)
How progressive education made my peers morally confused.
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In my eleventh grade American Literature class at a private school in the Philadelphia suburbs, our first assignment was to bring an object to class that represented America. Setting aside the inanity of having 16-year-olds perform show-and-tell—and presenting it as “education”—that day stuck with me for another reason.
One of my classmates, a fellow mem…
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