Commentary You may have noticed the ongoing fight between Alberta’s United Conservative Party and the education establishment—the teachers’ union and university faculties of education—over the government’s new humanities curriculum. And you may have noticed that the “expert” commentary in the mainstream media is uniformly damning the government. “They want to set back our educational system 40 years” and “undo the progress of the past three generations,” according to those commentaries. It’s clearly a fight between two opposed philosophies of education. But don’t let your eyes glaze over. Your kids are at stake. The traditional or natural philosophy of education believes the purpose of schools is to help kids mature into responsible adult citizens. Kids must be equipped to join the political, cultural, and economic world into which they are born—the real world. It’s only partly “traditional,” drawing on our roots, but it also has to adapt to the changing needs …