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  2. Western education - Wikipedia

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    Despite undergoing significant transformations over the centuries, classical education has maintained a lasting influence on Western thought and educational practices. Today, its legacy can be seen in the curricula of liberal arts colleges , the resurgence of classical Christian education , and ongoing debates about the relevance of classical ...

  3. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The academy movement in the US in the early nineteenth century arose from a public sense that education in the classic disciplines needed to be extended into the new territories and states that were being formed in the new western states.

  4. Western values - Wikipedia

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    A constant theme of debate around Western values has been around their universal applicability or lack thereof; in modern times, as various non-Western nations have risen, they have sought to oppose certain Western values, with even Western countries also backing down to some extent from championing its own values in what some see as a contested transition to a post-Western era of the world.

  5. Education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. Education in the United States of America National education budget (2023-24) Budget $222.1 billion (0.8% of GDP) Per student More than $11,000 (2005) General details Primary languages English System type Federal, state, local, private Literacy (2017 est.) Total 99% Male 99% Female 99% ...

  6. East–West dichotomy - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, the East–West dichotomy is the perceived difference between the Eastern and the Western worlds. Cultural and religious rather than geographical in division, the boundaries of East and West are not fixed, but vary according to the criteria adopted by individuals using the term.

  7. Billionaire investor Ken Griffin calls on Harvard to embrace ...

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    Griffin said, adding that schools should "embrace Western values that have built one of the greatest nations in the world." Billionaire investor Ken Griffin calls on Harvard to embrace ‘Western ...

  8. Eurocentrism - Wikipedia

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    follows the criteria of Eurocentrism commonly mentioned in the literature – denial of 'non-Western' agency, teleological narrative centred on the 'West' and idealization of the 'West' as normative referent—but whose system of value is the complete opposite of the one embodied by traditional Eurocentrism: With postcolonial Eurocentrism ...

  9. History of education in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    History of Education Quarterly 28.3 (1988): 333-366. Hines, Michael, and Thomas Fallace. "Pedagogical progressivism and black education: A historiographical review, 1880–1957." Review of Educational Research 93.3 (2023): 454-486. Urban, Wayne J. "History of education: A southern exposure." History of Education Quarterly 21.2 (1981): 131–145.