Campus chaos and anti-Israel rhetoric reveal stark failures of today’s higher education Fox News
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FormerEducationSecretaryBillBennettreactstoongoingprotestsoncollegecampusesandstatementsfromBiden’seducationsecretaryontheunrest.
Whatisgoingonattoday’suniversitiesintermsofthecampusproteststellsyouthatwehaveabandonedthesinglemostimportantfunctionofhighereducation.
Andthatishighereducation.
Peoplehaveforgottenthatcivilizationisnotself-executing.
Ithastobenurtured,protectedandtaught.
VIRTUESOFCOURAGE,COMPASSION,WORK,FRIENDSHIP—THESEMUSTBETAUGHT,SAYBILLBENNETT,ELAYNEBENNETT
Ithastobeemphasizedinordertobemaintained.
Morethan40yearsago,Iwroteaboutwhatwouldhappenifweneglectedthestudyofcivilization,thestudyofthehumanities.Isaidthatwhenwestudiedthehumanities—whenwestudiedhistory,philosophyandliterature—weunderstoodanddevelopedrespectforourdemocraticprocesses,fortheruleoflaw,forourinstitutionsofallkinds,forourveryfoundations.
Ademonstratorstandsinfrontofbarricadessetuptoprotectan
