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Poet and teacher Martin Crucefix responds to Milton's treatise Of Education, which argues the fundamental value of learning and for a highly ambitious curriculum.
Martyn Crucefix, a poet who also teaches in a secondary school, responds to Milton's treatise Of Education. It was written in 1644, when he was engaged in an urgent debate about how the Church should be organised and how the State should be governed. Crucefix finds that, just as more recent governments have declared, Milton believed 'education, education, education' needed to lie at the heart of this project.
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- Mon 8 Dec 2008 23:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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