With a

look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson promised to not eliminate Chicago's selective

enrollment public schools which require entry by test and target high achieving students.

However, in the name of equity, he's now proposing ending the selective process it takes to get

in those schools.

Decades ago in an essay called Democratic Education, CS Lewis described why this understanding

of equity will be doomed to fail.

Quote, an education which gave the able and diligent boys no advantage over the stupid and idle ones would be in one sense Democratic.

No boy, no boy's parents could feel inferior and education on those lines will be pleasing

to democratic feelings.

It will have repaired the inequalities of nature.

But it's quite another question whether it will breed a democratic nation which can survive,

or even one whose survival is desirable.

Truth he concluded is not democratic political democracy is doomed if it tries to extend its

demand for equality into higher spheres ethical intellectual and aesthetic democracy is death."

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.