{"id":66,"date":"2011-03-02T12:43:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T16:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/2011\/03\/02\/u-s-public-education-a-battleground-from-the-ivory-tower-to-first-grade\/"},"modified":"2011-10-12T13:20:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:20:26","slug":"u-s-public-education-a-battleground-from-the-ivory-tower-to-first-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/u-s-public-education-a-battleground-from-the-ivory-tower-to-first-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Public Education: A Battleground from the Ivory Tower to First Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi,\u00a0Professor of Psychology at the University of Haifa,\u00a0Israel.<\/p>\n

Sigmund Freud identifed two major blows to \u201chuman megalomania\u201d\u2014blows that destroyed our long-held self-image as unique and superior. The frst blow was the Copernican revolution, which deprived humans of their place at the center of the universe, telling them that earth was in a remote corner of one galaxy among billions. Then came Charles Darwin, putting us in our place as part of the animal kingdom, with no special creation needed for our appearance on earth.<\/p>\n

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by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi,\u00a0Professor of Psychology at the University of Haifa,\u00a0Israel. Sigmund Freud identifed two major blows to \u201chuman megalomania\u201d\u2014blows that destroyed our long-held self-image as unique and superior. The frst blow was the Copernican revolution, which deprived humans of their … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,28,29,30,33,37],"tags":[63,64,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}