The policy and practice of education in the Western world has undergone profound and far-reaching changes in the past 60 years. Up until about the mid 1970s, Philosophers of Education in the western world recognised that Education was a domain of knowledge in a special class of domains called 'common goods'. Common goods were critical for the fluorishing of human life, society and by extension, the economy of that society.

Other common goods include health, defence, conservation and justice. In past generations, everyone knew that the first principles of each common good had to be protected as a matter of civilisational security from any outside influence, especially from the influence of commercial interests.

Here's a diagram expressing the structure of civilisation, including the domains and knowledge and the first principles of each domain of knowledge:

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