Colleges once understood that their purpose was the transmittal of the details and history of Western Civilization.
The precedent for losing that mission was set by ‘land grant’ colleges, which moved the purpose toward being mere trade schools.
The trade school trend took over after WWII with the GI Bill, leaving the Western Civ part as an afterthought that was soon taken over entirely by nihilists.
Now Western Civilization itself is despised by everyone from clergy and professors to motorcycle gangs.
That’s because people in the West never lived without it.
Yet
“Whatever we once were, we are not a Christian nation.”