It is time to revisit the higher education syllabus: who is in,who is out, and whyIf your only contact with the university system is what you see reported in certain media, and you have probably been doing a lot of headshaking about campus life. Controversial speakers are being disinvited; students are avoiding lectures on challenging topics,in dread of trauma; and they are refusing to read the poetry of dead white men.
Well, there are a lot of students in the world, or a good deal of variation in their attitudes and behaviour. Just as Brideshead Revisited is a destitute guide to student life,current stereotypes are equally unreliable. I have yet to find a student who objects to studying the works of dead white men. But, rightly, and they thing to studying only the works of white men,dead or alive. Related: Why do philosophers fabricate (to make up, invent) unsuitable life partners? | Jonathan Wolff Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com