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...book's civilian purchasers, they read on past Bloom's juicy passages on the mental masturbation of the MTV generation. There they found Bloom lamenting the "Nietzscheanization"--i.e., descent into cheap nihilism and easy relativism unworthy of Nietzsche--of the American university. In his longing for a return to a more Socratic conception of higher education, however, Bloom's later critics correctly discerned an author whose relationship with the democratic idea was ambiguous...
...THUS we return to Bloom. Bloom's critique of contemporary American higher education stems from his belief in the idea of the university embodied in the literal meaning of the word: one truth. It should be a place where a few stout-hearted Socratic souls doggedly pursue Truth, without having to look over their shoulders worrying about what "the many" think of their efforts. Pre-professionals need not apply. The dissolution of modern American higher education into multiversities catering to the needs and demands of mass democracy is the great crime of something known as "the sixties...
Conant fellows say the fellowships are a particularly important program because they provide teachers with a very hard-to-come-by opportunity to return to school, and they increase Harvard's involvement in urban school systems...
...Conant Fellowships are especially attractive for area teachers because the opportunity to take time off and study is often hard to come by. In Cambridge and Boston, sabbatical openings are limited, and the cities do not provide tuition grants for teachers who want to return to graduate school. Cambridge Superintendent of Schools Robert S. Peterkin says the school department budget does not allow room for tuition grants to teachers...
This year's Conant fellows may end up serving as an ongoing link between Harvard and the Cambridge and Boston school systems. All of the fellows are planning to return to work in Cambridge and Boston, although some may take on new responsibilities. Several of the six fellows are fulfilling requirements that will allow them to go into administration, but they say that they will continue to work in their urban school systems...