I’ve read many of the classics, but almost zero were assigned in my public education. High school graduate of early 90’s.
US Colleges bending over backwards to the demands of a minority are graduating students for Watter’s World or what was Jay Leno’s Jay Walking.
The woke cultural revolution is an anti-intellectual movement. They have to destroy wisdom and critical thinking so they can have an army of ignorant slaves.
Communist revolutionaries such as this idiotic ‘professor” hate the classics because of the healthy moral education they provide. Plus, they teach one to actually think critically.
If they changed their requirements at the professors request only because he’s black, that’s not only racist, but it does not comply with MLK’s comments on character vs color.
Reasons to attend Ivy League schools has almost shrunk to a vanishing point when student of classical literature are denied learning Greek and Latin.
Looks like the trend of Chinese student s coming to America for education, will be replaced with American students going to China to learn the classics and many other BLM-ized disciplines as Americans sink into intellectual pygmies.
Read Sun Tsu Art of War and tell me that it isn’t being played out by the Chinese right before our very eyes…
Finished "Crime and Punishment" in January and nearly through Jane Eyre - this has been a ton of fun.
I thought this was about John Wayne.
Since nobody today learns Latin or Ancient Greek as their first language, how is requiring students to learn Latin and Greek biased in favor of one race over another?
The Society for Classical Studies is a new name for an old organization--it was founded in the 19th century as the American Philological Association. It generally holds its annual convention together with the Archaeological Institute of America.
“As The US Turns Its Back On Western Classics”
Correction: “As the American LEFT turns its back on Western Classics”