WHO KILLED HOMER : THE DEMISE OF CLASSICAL EDUCATION AND THE RECOVERY OF GREEK WISDOM

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Summary: Both dispiriting and Inspiring
Review: This is a great book in many ways. What the authors report about the classics can in many ways be applied more broadly to a university education in general. The culture of the tenured professor, the publish or perish mentality of the modern university, all of these contribute to the erosion of quality in our colleges.
The authors do a good job of pointing out the nonsense that is published in the name of scholarship.
They are right in that it probably is too late to save Classics at the university level, but perhaps their advice will yield a more demotic embrace of Greek ideas.

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Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: This is an excellent book. It shows how a classical education is the only education for a truly educated person, but many modern professors have declared war upon this type of education, instead replacing it with political correctness and multiculturalism. Matthew Arnold once said that "a truly educated man will know Latin." Let's hope that this norm survives and is not destroyed by these ideological PC professors.