>>24594200
>It was determined it was due to the fact the Prussian soldiers had studied the Trivium. (grammar, logic and rhetoric)
>They were thinking too much when they should just follow orders.
>After this the Trivium was reserved for the elite.
I always had a feeling the nation-state was behind the death of classical humanism, and now it all makes sense. You see this in other countries too that all boot the classical education at some point in the 19th century to create a bourgeoise bugman class that can keep up with the purely quantitative output of other nation states in all fields.
