Leprous Past Belief

The youthful mind feasts upon substance. The professoriate at every level, from kindergarten through graduate school, has been eviscerating the curriculum, emptying it of its substance. This seems to be a reflection of a deeply anti-civilizational impulse.

For example, there was recently held a three-week—three-week—conference of “educators” at Wye Plantation, Maryland, and the conferees achieved remarkable unanimity. As reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “English teachers from kindergarten through college have set out strikingly unified classroom goals, recommending an emphasis on how students read, write, and think, rather than on familiarity with specific literary works.”

The youthful mind feasts upon substance. The professoriate at every level, from kindergarten through graduate school, has been eviscerating the curriculum, emptying it of its substance. This seems to be a reflection of a deeply anti-civilizational impulse.

For example, there was recently held a three-week—three-week—conference of “educators” at Wye Plantation, Maryland, and the conferees achieved remarkable unanimity. As reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “English teachers from kindergarten through college have set out strikingly unified classroom goals, recommending an emphasis on how students read, write, and think, rather than on familiarity with specific literary works.”