WSJ snickers at Wes curriculum

Cabinfever
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:27:09 +0000

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119145740748148406.html

“They accept or reject their teachers as role models more on account of the group to which they belong and less because of their individual qualities of character and intellect. And the works they study are regarded more as statements of group membership than as creations of men and women with viewpoints uniquely their own.” Anyone who has perused the course catalog of a liberal-arts college – Wesleyan’s English department, for instance, offers “Chicina Lesbian Literature: Speaking in Tongues” and “Law, Race, and Literature: An Introduction to Critical Race Theory” – will recognize what Mr. Kronman is talking about."