Saturday, June 9, 2007

Education at Its Finest By Henry P. Wickham, Jr.

"In a bygone era, a child sent to study the humanities was expected to drink deeply from the collected wisdom of the finest writers and artists, emerging with a heightened sense of mankind's potential for greatness as well the flaws inherent in human nature. But today, the forces of the left reign supreme, and agendas have pushed aside the deep truths of the human predicatment.

To get a better picture of the contemporary humanities, one can read books such as Alvin Kernan's The Death of Literature, John M. Ellis's Literature Lost, R. V. Young's At War With the Word, and Who Killed Homer? by Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath, to name only a few among many."

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