Parents must labor under the impression that schools like Smith College and Vassar College are still quality schools that are not openly hostile to Western civilization.
The schools' boards of directors are manifestly the oversight equivalent of tits on a boar hog, so what are the alumni donors thinking of when they fork over the big bucks?
An authentic liberal education promotes both character and understanding with a rigorous study of what Matthew Arnold called "the best that is known and thought in the world." When dead white males like Thomas Jefferson and John Milton are replaced, or must compete with popular studies about transgendered males and newly minted homosexual heroes in classic novels, students are deprived of any trace of disciplined thought. . . .On this issue of grievance note this interesting post[2] about Karl Marx's hatred of mankind and how that made him a beacon for the disaffected.
"Gender Studies, Ethnic Studies, Afro-American Studies, Women's Studies, Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies," writes Roger Kimball, author of "Tenured Radicals," in New Criterion magazine, "are not the names of academic disciplines but political grievances. . . .[1]
Notes
[1] "The evil virus upon us." By Suzanne Fields, Townhall.com, 10/20/05.
[2] Gary North's Summary of Karl Marx." Marx & Friends in Their Own Words.
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