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Along with University of Chicago professor and best-selling author Allan Bloom, Bennett is laying plans to establish a summer institute aimed at reforming college curricula and exposing undergraduates to the "great books...
...been chosen, will bring together between 50 and 100 college students to study literature, history and political philosophy under a distinguished group of faculty drawn from across the nation. Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, who serves on the center's board of directors with Bennett and Bloom, has said he will teach at the new institute...
...idea of a summer institute for undergraduates that would promote the study of classical Western thought first arose over a year ago when Bennett was having dinner with Bloom. Bloom, a mordant critic of higher education and author of the best-selling The Closing of the American Mind, and Bennett agreed that it was time to find a new way to bring back more traditional curricula on college campuses...
...best-seller, which was subtitled "How higher education has failed Democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students," Bloom charges that colleges are responsible for the moral failings of modern youth. Specifically, Bloom argues, students have not received sufficient exposure to classics of Western thought...
INTERVIEW: Education critic Allan Bloom lashes back...