> In a statement to the Tribune, A&M said the decision did not amount to a ban on teaching Plato and that other sections of the same course that include Plato – but do not include modules on race and gender ideology – had been approved.
As an alumni I say Great. Glad to see it. All the BS courses whose students majoring in this stuff will likely never be able to pay back their student loans waiting tables for the rest of their life. Get a GRIP. NOBODY is hiring these majors. My son and my family endowed scholarship is limited to engineering and science majors, business majors a second possibility. No liberal arts majors whatsoever.
I feel the exact opposite, that we as a society should pay for (or at least heavily subsidize) a broad college education so that we put people on the track to being the best versions of themselves before we release them back into the wild world of civilization. I want to work with people driven by a mission, chat with people who are curious and interesting, buy from artisans who are performing a craft with all their heart, live near people who are considerate and kind, and vote with people who have a strong moral core.
Liberal arts education is not the only path, but I think it’s one of the ways people hone those qualities in themselves.
Ancient Greece? Not so much.
Whatever this is, it is NOT conservative, and it shows no modern right wing argument is ever made in good faith or on principle; the yelling is nothing but whatever sounds good at the moment, and the moment it is inconvenient, it changes.
They have fewer principles than Vladimir Lenin.
Addendum: 60 minutes on, no one's questioned the spelling or mentioned a 1960 Nobel Prize winner in biology.
Sorry I'm late, but info propagation lag is a bitch.
Peter Medawar's Pluto's Republic isn't Plato's Republic but it's title was prompted by people so confidently and blatently incorrect about content and author that they deserved a shoutout.
If anything falls under the core HN guideline, "If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.", it would be this.
I do not know how treatment of a founding thinker of Western Civilization in a top school would not be of intellectual interest.