Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12 2. This is resistance and reformation on the Fight, laugh, Feast Network.

In his choruses from the rock, the great 20th century poet T.S. Eliot asked, where is the life we have lost in living?

Where's the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The poem was Elliot's more mature reflection on themes he had taken up in his other more renowned works, The Wasteland,

The Hollow Men, and Ash Wednesday, written more than a decade earlier, with their obscure

literary allusions, shifting lectors and octores, and complex classical tropes. The earlier poems were critiques of the

modernist moral revolution which threatened he believe the very foundations of Western civilization,

the basis for the rule of law and the hope of freedom, prosperity, and progress.

Eliot despaired for future generations as they would have to grapple with the smothering conformity

demanded by a shallow post-Christian culture. A host of others from the post-World War

generation shared his alarm.

And so they unanimously called for a renewal of substantive education as perhaps the greatest

hope for the renewal of society itself, engaging the full political and economic resources

of modern society. But Elliott asserted that it was not quite as

simple as that. The purpose of education, he said, is to transmit culture. But schools can transmit

only a part of culture, and they can only transmit this part effectively if outside

influences of work and play of media and entertainment and sport, and most especially of family,

are in harmony with them. Indeed, he said, questions of education are frequently discussed as if they

bore no relation to the social system in which and for which the education is carried on.

Education is a subject which cannot be discussed and avoid.

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