| The range of political thinking is generally from liberal democrat to conservative republican, which is a far, far smaller range than that of mainstream political thinking elsewhere. Economics mostly runs from the neo-Keynesians to the Friedmanites and the Laugher Curve - find out in how many economics departments they are reading Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize winner) as part of the core curriculum, or any substantial critique of "neo-liberalism" (the term itself, which is common parlance in most of the world, hardly appears in U.S. university circles.) At the Harvard School of Education, there isn't a single class where they teach Paolo Freire, likely the most important educator of the 20th century (you can read him in the Divinity School.) I think you'll find virtually the same in every school of education (with the happy exception of UI-Chicago and the work of William Ayers). |