If you *really* study philosophy and have a good understanding of the fundamental tenets of the great currents of political thought and their historical development, you can see the deeper roots of so many things. It's really striking .

For instance, it's very common today to hear people complain about how children are taught "stuff" in and by itself, for the sake of making them memorize it, as opposed to "holistic" approached based on showing the relationships between things, as a door to "critical thinking".

I instinctively rejected that notion even when I was in mid school. I never saw anything wrong in memorizing the names of rivers, capitals and positions of countries, historical dates that would serve me as reference points for other events, and so on.

Now I realize WHO made those claims and pushed so hard for reform 25-30 years ago -- which they achieved, at least where I'm from. It was mainly the "pedagogues" and teacher unions. I.e., the marxists.

And if you pay attention, you see why: marxism has as a basic core hegelian "dialectics", which reject the notion that objects can be studied in isolation and only recognizes the study of "relationships". This is exactly the basis of modern "everything is power dynamics" woke mental disease.

You will exclaim "But I'm a libertarian and I'm against memorizing!". What you should be against is state-mandated content and methods, not the system of learning that took us from darkness to the peak of our societal development.