Sigh. When people could READ ...
You didn’t have to be a genius: you just had to READ.
I was just reading a book by Anthony Esolen, who teaches at Providence University in Rhode Island. He said a panel discussion was held regarding their quite demanding Western Civ program. A leftist professor said, “All teaching is political,” so Dr. Esolen talked about the program in terms of its value for political opposition: You can’t oppose the Patriarchy on its own terms unless you’ve read the texts upon which John Adams, for example, built a worldview.
A young women student said, after his discussion, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
I was most impressed by Strong’s first sense of responsibility when he realized he was a politician; it was to read the Constitution of the United States and of the state of New York. Too bad nobody in government seems to care about the Constitution today..