About three weeks ago, Dr. Everett Piper, president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University in Tulsa, created a stir with his powerful article, This is Not Day Care, It’s a University. It’s probably the best, most succinct defense of a classical, liberal arts education I’ve ever heard. Piper was responding to the recent
Today many university students put subjectivity over objectivity, feelings over the pursuit of truth. We have written on this phenomenon in the post “Safe Spaces”: Converting Students to Jihadis on University Campuses. Maybe instead of simply critiquing this trend, we should provide an alternative. How about “growth spaces” of intellectual
The current “safe spaces” rage indicates that apparently, the soup of political correctness hasn’t turned out to be very nourishing. That stew has been fed to American students for a generation. In the interim, they’ve grown into university scholars who are unable to bear any criticism. Even the perception of critique is too
Unlikely as it may seem, a jihadi doctrine is growing among non-Muslims in the Western world. The growth of this doctrine is leading to the demise of the West. Western universities used to be “liberal” places (as in “liberal arts”), centers of critical thinking, free speech, freedom of conscience. People of different views
