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Description of  The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It

The liberal arts are dying. They are dying because most Americans dont see the point of them. Americans dont understand why anyone would study literature or history or the classicsor, more contemporarily, feminist criticism, whiteness studies, or the literature of postcolonial stateswhen 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, its hard to convince parents or their progeny that a liberal education is all that wonderful or that its even worthy of respect. Read more