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Higher Education in America and Plato’s Cave

In this week’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Professor Thomas Bertonneau likens the situation in higher education in America to Plato’s cave parable.

Many students seem content with flickering shadows that supposedly represent knowledge, rather than knowledge itself.

George Leef is the the director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is the author of The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time.
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