What use is a liberal arts college education today? There are few cocktail parties and fewer game shows. At least that was the former use for that type of education. Latin and Greek were even part of the mandatory curricula.
Universities really did teach information that had some use at one time (although it tended to be more fitting for the 19th Century), with a bit of limited political discourse. Today that instruction is inverted to be almost exclusively political or yo be in the name of diversity (which is also political).
Prepare for a season of intellectual posturing and Islamic outreach.
SEP 12, 2011, VOL. 16, NO. 48 • BY CHARLOTTE ALLEN
Unlike the commemorations in most of the rest of America, however, the academic commemorations for the most part won’t focus on, say, the 403 New York firefighters, paramedics, and police officers who died in rescue efforts at the World Trade Center towers hit by hijacked planes. Nor upon the numerous acts of courage and selflessness that marked that day, not least those of the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93, the flight that crashed in Pennsylvania, whose rallying cry “Let’s roll!” led by 32-year-old passenger Todd Beamer accompanied an effort to fight back against the terrorists. Nor upon the approximately 3,000 children who lost parents in the massacre, including dozens of babies born after their fathers perished. Least of all will there be much emphasis on what America did or should have done by way of reprisal for a brazen act of war that killed more people in the collapse of the World Trade towers alone (2,753) than perished in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 (2,402). ...
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