I would say that civilization is education, not seduction.
Other forces are at work in the creation and acceptance of miracle stories besides the relative level of civilization and education.
Sarmiento contends that Dorrego, a Federalist, was interested neither in social progress nor in ending barbaric behaviour in Argentina by improving the level of civilization and education of its rural inhabitants.
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The study of Western civilization, which dominated American education after World War II, has long been under attack, and is increasingly hard to find in our schools and colleges.
In linking Europe with civilization, and civilization with education, Sarmiento conveyed an admiration of European culture and civilization which at the same time gave him a sense of dissatisfaction with his own culture, motivating him to drive it towards civilization.
"My efforts in the future will be directed," Grant said in his second inaugural address, "by a humane course, to bring the aborigines of the country under the benign influences of education and civilization ... Wars of extermination ... are demoralizing and wicked".
Hellenistic civilization and its educational pattern were prolonged to the end of antiquity and even beyond; it was to be a slow metamorphosis and not a brutal revolution that would later give birth to the civilization and education strictly called Byzantine.
"Conservatives used to be in favor of holding students to high standards and an academic curriculum based on great works of Western civilization and the American republic," two education scholars, Kathleen Porter-Magee and Sol Stern, wrote in National Review Online.
This created a mass market for teachers of history, again, especially in the United States, where it became common to inculcate in first-year students, under the rubric of "general education," courses in "Western civilization".
