<p>“Hadsed and Brooklyn, do you have a list of courses that every college student should be required to take in order to be educated to your standards? General education requirements don’t even come close to covering every single area of study; if they did, there wouldn’t be any time left for a major.”</p>
<p>I have not said everyone should be educated in every field. I just see a climate of growing anti-intellectualism, in which one is denounced as socialist and anti-american for daring to assert the things we have actually learned in an array of fields, and I see folks questioning the desirability of university educations in general, and I cant help but seeing those as connected. A broad rebellion against book learning, against research, against “intellectuals who think they are better than us” and a constant affirmation of the common sense of the people, or at least when that common sense happens to agree with some peoples ideological bent.</p>