Monday, February 16, 2004

More Edward Feser

I linked to a Feser piece the other day after stopping by PrestoPundit. Today, Greg Ransom links to another Feser piece that’s worth taking the time to read.  It’s titled “The Opium of the Professors." The first two paragraphs of Feser’s article.

"It is said of Woodrow Wilson that when asked what the purpose of a liberal education is, he replied “To make a person as unlike his father as possible.” He was, at the time, merely the president of Princeton University, and had not yet become schoolmarm-in-chief of the United States or waged the war that ended all wars and made the world safe for democracy.

But as with his better-known schemes of social uplift and gauzy internationalism, so too with his philosophy of education, Wilson was the very model of the progressive academic. Whatever bland official statement of purpose might appear in the introduction to a modern university’s college catalog, its true raison d’etre is in practice nothing other than to destroy utterly whatever allegiance a young person might have to traditional conceptions in morality, religion, politics and culture, to “do dirt” on the faith of his fathers, on his country, and on what most human beings have historically understood to be the imperatives of decency. It is, in short, to propagate Leftism."

Posted by John Venlet on 02/16 at 04:59 AM
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