Can you answer the following questions?
Who fought in the Peloponnesian War?
Who taught Plato, and whom did Plato teach?
Who was Saul of Tarsus?
Why does the Magna Carta matter?
What are one or two of the arguments made in Federalist 10?
Hard questions, right? Maybe not. Maybe you learned some or all of the answers in school, or you knew them at one time, but have now forgotten the details. Or perhaps you are devoted to a few events that you have internalized and helped form you into the person you are today.
But knowing the answers in great detail may be less important than recognizing the importance of the questions.
Unfortunately, Stanford University students may never realize how significant and meaningful these questions are because the student government earlier this week voted overwhelmingly against requiring students to complete a two-quarter course on Western civilization.
That’s right. Instead, the student leadership, validated by its Pravda-esque mouthpiece, The Stanford Daily, concluded that supporting Western civilization basically equated to “upholding white supremacy, capitalism and colonialism, and all other oppressive systems that flow from Western civilizations.”
Read more about Western civilization classes in U.S. colleges.
