| The Opium of the Professors--The second of a two-part series on universities and the Left. |
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| Posted by SJackson On 02/16/2004 9:34:57 AM EST with 10 comments TCS ^ | 02/16/2004 | EDWARD FESER It is said of Woodrow Wilson that when asked what the purpose of a liberal education is, he replied "To make a person as unlike his father as possible." He was, at the time, merely the president of Princeton University, and had not yet become schoolmarm-in-chief of the United States or waged the war that ended all wars and made the world safe for democracy. But as with his better-known schemes of social uplift and gauzy internationalism, so too with his philosophy of education, Wilson was the very model of the progressive academic. Whatever bland official statement of purpose might... |
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| Edward Feser: Why Are Universities Dominated by the Left? |
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| Posted by Tolik On 02/13/2004 8:10:51 AM EST with 57 comments Tech Central Station ^ | 02/13/2004 | Edward Feser The hegemony of the Left over the universities is so overwhelming that not even Leftists deny it. Whether the institution is public or private, a community college or an Ivy League campus, you can with absolute confidence predict that the curriculum will be suffused with themes such as: capitalism is inherently unjust, dehumanizing, and impoverishing; socialism, whatever its practical failures, is motivated by the highest ideals and that its luminaries -- especially Marx -- have much to teach us; globalization hurts the poor of the Third World; natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate and that human industrial... |
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