"The Overselling of Higher Education"

<p>In this article on the Education Sector site, E.D. Hirsch tries to distance himself from Bloom.</p>

<p>"But, as I discovered, [the hostility] didn’t have to do with the arguments and the evidence; it had to do with currents and perceived ideas within the education world and with what was happening then in the universities. The feeling in the universities at that time was that it was very important to change American culture through feminism and multiculturalism, and this book came out right in the middle of all that, so its message got diverted. I was paired with [The Closing of the American Mind author] Alan Bloom—that was an interesting part of the phenomenon: His book and my book came out the same month. So I got tagged as conservative, which is not intellectually or politically true. I think that’s been the chief problem for Core Knowledge. …</p>

<p>“So, I think the two biggest misconceptions about Core Knowledge are that it’s really drill and kill and that it’s conservative politically in its impulses. It’s true that literate culture is conservative in that the things that we all take for granted are rather slow to shift. But in fact, if you really want to be effective in changing power structure or the society, you had better be able to manage that machinery. It’s a real paradox that all these people damned the book [Cultural Literacy], but in doing so demonstrate their own cultural literacy, because they’re using allusions that only a person who is extremely well educated could understand. There is this kind of strange elitism in the reaction of the academic left to Cultural Literacy, which is very egalitarian in its impulses.” </p>

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