[The Scourge of Yazid]

"Hey, Hey! Ho, Ho! Western culture has got to go!"

As Lino Graglia-one of the best legal minds in the country and an outstanding scholar in his own right-said after hearing these statements: "What exactly does that mean?"

It means the elimination of any semblance of a unifying, national culture and the further fragmentation of an already precariously divided country.

It also means that this generation of students has been raised (intentionally, no less!), to be more ignorant then the generation that preceded it.

Weep for America!

[Lunatic Fringe]

only 23 now require English majors to take a course in Shakespeare

Amazing. English majors should be required to study the master of the English language.

[DustyMoment]

This is discouraging. The deeper we get into the 21st Century, the dumber we are graduating our kids. Parents need to start taking control of local Board of Education meetings and demanding better courses, better teachers, and a heck of a lot less NEA and liberalism.

Shakespeare's tough, but he set the bar over 600 years ago and has rarely been equalled. I agree with the others who believe that a well-rounded, classical education ABSOLUTELY REQUIRES studying the masters of literature. To do anything less is to deprive these students of the majesty of literature and limit them to the likes of pop-slang such as "Doh!" and "yada, yada". They deserve better. We as a society deserve better and the education profession should be hanging its collective head in shame for the dumbing down of school curricula.

[LexBaird]

I think it is time for the founding of another great University; one dedicated to the classic western education. There is a crying need for this, and I believe the public would flock to such a place.

Imagine, courses in real literature, logic, history, and arts, stripped of the PC crap at the charter level. No tenure, no "publish or perish" professors who disdain actual teaching, no wymyn's/chicano/black/gay/[insert interest group] "studies". No "scholarships" based on how well you can throw a ball. No federal money accepted, so no federal interference brooked. A Board of Regents drawn from the real world, not the political world.

Hey, Bill Gates, if you are looking for a legacy like Carnegie's, think about this.