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Lewis has noted that the last two major curricular reviews have moved in somewhat different directions on the issue of America’s place in the world.
Changes made after World War II were based on ideas laid out in the Faculty-produced book, General Education in a Free Society, known as the “Red Book,” Lewis said.
“The basic premise,” Lewis wrote in The Crimson, “was that civilization had almost been extinguished, and it was a responsibility of American higher education to ensure that the students it was educating would not let the same thing happen again.?...
At Morning Prayers, Lewis called the book “mainly Western in perspective” but “not jingoistic” and “not even about teaching patriotism.” He said the book instilled a sense of respect for the ideal of freedom...
Lewis contrasted the Core Curriculum—introduced in the 1970s in part to introduce students to other cultures—with the Red Book, saying the Core “had no particular motivating philosophy” other than to cultivate the importance of learning in general.