<p>I think many of you miss the point of the “quiz”. </p>
<p>If you look carefully at the list of items, they all are from the foundations of Western Civilization and American History.</p>
<p>These students may very well be educated in more modern (i.e. 20th century) literature and events as the trendy educators think that more modern means more meaning to students.</p>
<p>However what they miss is the fact that if you don’t know where you came from, you cannot tell where you are going to go. The modern thoughts only have meaning in the context of where they came from.</p>
<p>And trust me, in my time at Berkeley 20+ years ago, there were plenty of people who rejected the idea of studying the ideas of “dead white people”. They were PC long before everyone else.</p>