Education: Too Late to Save English Departments?

By Mary Grabar
Thankfully, much is being made of Heather Mac Donald’s recent piece, “The Humanities and Us,” [HIGHLY RECOMMENDED READING] in the City Journal. She illustrates the decline of college English departments, where “gender, sexuality, race, and class” have taken over Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare. The radicals of the 60s and 70s are firmly in charge; their diktats have attacked the hallmarks of literary study; and Mac Donald rightly calls for a return to standards at colleges. But standards won’t do any good if incoming freshmen are incapable of reading, thinking independently, and using logic. That has already begun to be the case, and it is going to get worse thanks to new “standards” known as Common Core.

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