That’s what God is fooooooooor!
Wednesday, May 24, 2006 at 6:35PM BOOK REVIEW: “The Confusion on Campus,” by Vincent J. Cannato (reviewing Excellence Without a Soul by Harry R. Lewis), Wall Street Journal, 24 May 2006, p. D12.
Weird book that says higher education in America (focusing on Harvard as the example) prepares only the mind and not the soul, thus it’s failing our society. It’s all just too relativistic, says Lewis.
Strange to see a social conservative bitching about how colleges aren’t doing more to shape men’s souls, when I would have thought such a function is logically left to organized religion. If our universities go down this path, they lose their appeal as magnets for foreign students, in my mind.
Frankly, I never looked to Harvard to shape my soul. The nuns back at Immaculate Conception did that.
Reader Comments (2)
The problem is that University should be a place ALL ideas and not just for those on the left.
Read this VDH article:
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/thornton052306.html
Parents that pay universities have the right to expose thier kids to ALL views.
I think that that it is possible to shape a soul, improving it in ways that are not sectarian and would not limit our academic appeal to the world. Duty, honor, honesty, compassion would certainly be an improvement over whininess, grade inflation, rampant plagiarism, political correctness, and other alternate values that seem to be floating around in too much of academe.
The devil's in the details so I'd want to see details. This could be done so very badly but there is room for an upside.