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The Rise of State Education

Writer's picture: Dalton MorrisonDalton Morrison

Updated: Jan 17

According to Deirdre McKloske, a distinguished Scholar at the Cato Institute from 2000 to 2015, some of the traditional explanations for Western prosperity fail. There is a major,unique ingredient that accounts for it. Firstly, some of the traditional explanations for Western prosperity fail because they were true at other times or in other cultures and did not make the difference. They may be necessary but they are not sufficient. The major, unique ingredient that accounts for western prosperity is respect for the working-class common man. Entrepreneurs were, for a change, being admired instead of treated like they were doing something undignified.

You see a similar respect for man at the Congress of Vienna from 1814–1815. Neither the powerful nor the poor were given license to look down on the people with no representation. The diplomats were all different, with very different views, but their major principles were maintaining political boundaries, the balance of powers, and respecting spheres ofinfluence. The result was a long-lasting European peace that allowed the people who create Western prosperity to flourish.

Carlsbad Decrees. Simply put, the Carlsbad Decrees in the states of the German Confederation in 1819 were part of a conservative response to what happened in the French Revolution. Monarchs were afraid that any liberal thought could go as crazy as the Jacobins. were decrees that made the state watch more closely over the people, which started a time of oppression. In particular, they targeted schools, making sure that neither teachers nor students were organized in any anti-statist thinking. Thanks for reading another western civ. Essay, everyone!

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