The Death of Learning How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It
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John Agresto, "The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It"
English | ISBN: 1641772689 | 2022 | 256 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The liberal arts are dying. They are dying because most Americans don't see the point of them. Americans don't understand why anyone would study literature or history or the classics-or, more contemporarily, feminist criticism, whiteness studies, or the literature of postcolonial states-when they can get an engineering or business degree.
Even more concerning is when they read how "Western civilization" has become a term
of reproach at so many supposedly thoughtful institutions; or how fanatical political correctness works hard to silence alternative viewpoints; or, more generally, how liberal studies have become scattered, narrow, and small. In this atmosphere, it's hard to convince parents or their progeny that a liberal education is all that wonderful or that it's even worthy of respect.
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