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AMERICAN GREATNESS<\/strong>, by Victor Davis Hanson — September 1, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most of us who came of age in the 1970s revered the university\u2014even as it was still reeling from 1960s protests and beginning a process that resulted in its present chaos and disrepute.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Americans of the G.I. Bill-era first enshrined the idea of upward mobility through the bachelor\u2019s degree\u2014the assumed gateway to career security\u2014and the positive role of expanding colleges to grow the new suburban middle classes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite student radicalism and demands for reform, professors had been trained in the postwar era by an older breed of prewar scholars and teachers. As stewards they passed on their sense of professionalism about training future scholars and teachers\u2014and just broadly educated citizens. In classics, I remember courses from scholars like British subjects like H.D. Kitto and Michael Grant, who lectured on Sophoclean tragedies or the late Roman emperors as the common inheritance of undergraduates. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overwhelmingly liberal and often hippish in appearance, American faculty of the early 1970s still only rarely indoctrinated students, or bullied them to mimic their own progressivism. Rather, in both the humanities and sciences, students were taught the inductive method of evaluating evidence in hopes of finding some common explanation of natural and human phenomena. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, we studied \u201cmere\u201d facts\u2014dates, names, grammar, syntax, and formulae\u2014but deliberately to ground or refute theories with evidence and to illustrate and enhance argumentation. Essays bled red by old masters of English prose style, whose efforts were aimed at ensuring students could communicate effectively but also with a sense of grace. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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