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Lessons of the past relevant today: the collected essays in Bonfire of the Humanities highlight multiculturalism's devastating effect on today's universities and the humanities' vital importance in higher education. (Book Review).
Bonfire of the Humanities: Rescuing the Classics in an Impoverished Age, by Hanson, Victor Davis, et al., Wilmington: ISI Books, 2001, 373 pages, hard-bound, $24.95.
When it comes to problems in America's education system, what usually comes to mind are the difficulties facing parents, teachers, and children at the primary and secondary levels. Americans concern themselves less with problems in the universities, not because these institutions are so sound and strong, but because higher education is fairly well insulated from the rest of society. Thus it is occasionally extraordinary and always interesting when professors leave the Ivory Tower and present evidence ...
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