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...great university was brought low by the very forces that modern universities came into being to oppose--ignorance, irrationality, and intimidation," Bennett said in a speech at Stanford earlier this year...
Unsurprisingly, the confrontational tactics of conservatives such as Bennett have alienated some college presidents and leaders in higher education, who say that Bennett is trying to usurp the universities' traditional role in shaping their own curricula...
...wish Mr. Bennett well in his efforts to compete with colleges and universities," said Vice President for Governmental and Community Affairs John Shattuck. "He's certainly been trying to do that as Education Secretary...
...view of curriculum is quite a bit narrower than educators feel is essential," Shattuck said. "Bennett's view is that the classics and a few well-trodden works are essential [to a college curriculum], and while they're essential, they're not enough...
Critics of the Bennett agenda for curriculum reform say that his program represents a return to the ethnocentricity and the narrow-mindedness that prevailed in most college core courses in the humanities half a century ago. Further, they charge, it is as politically motivated as the push for a non-Western curriculum at Stanford which the Secretary condemned...