Taking liberal arts education away from the least privileged — implying that they are future laborers and nothing else — helps ensure that they develop a resentment of "elites." That's an animus whose political consequences should be uncomfortably familiar by now...
Monday, August 21, 2023
Opinion | What Just Happened at West Virginia University Is Alarming - The New York Times
The campaign to overturn the liberal arts is politically motivated, through and through. The Democratic Party has lost the working class, while the Republican Party has made electoral gains among the least educated. With the help of consultants, Republicans seek to gut the (nonprofit or public) university in the name of a "profit" it doesn't even intend to deliver. The point instead is to divide the electorate, and higher education is the tool.
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