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The Heart of the Matter,
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the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences
(AAAS)
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deserves
praise
for
affirming
the
importance
of
the
humanities
and
social
sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America. Regrettably, however, the
report's
failure
to
address
the
true
nature
of
the
crisis
facing
liberal
education
may
cause
more
harm than good
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In 2010, leading congressional Democrats and Republicans sent letters to the AAAS asking
that it identify actions that could be taken by "federal, state and local governments, universities,
foundations,
educators,
individual
benefactors
and
others"
to
"maintain
national
excellence
in
humanities and social scientific scholarship and education."In response, the American Academy
formed
the
Commission
on
the
Humanities
and
Social
Sciences.
Among
the
commission's
51
members are top-tier-university presidents, scholars, lawyers, judges, and business executives, as
well as prominent figures from diplomacy, filmmaking, music and journalism
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The goals identified in the report are generally admirable. Because representative government
presupposes an informed citizenry, the report supports full literacy; stresses the study of history
and government, particularly American history and American government; and encourages the use
of
new
digital
technologies.
To
encourage
innovation
and
competition,
the
report
calls
for
increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students' ability
to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers
and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.
The
report
also
advocates
greater
study
of
foreign
languages,
international
affairs
and
the
expansion of study abroad programs
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Unfortunately, despite 2
陆
years in the making, "The Heart of the Matter" never gets to the
heart of the matter: the illiberal nature of liberal education at our leading colleges and universities.
The
commission
ignores
that
for
several
decades
America's
colleges
and
universities
have
produced
graduates
who
don't
know
the
content
and
character
of
liberal
education and
are
thus
deprived of its benefits. Sadly, the spirit of inquiry once at home on campus has been replaced by
the
use
of
the
humanities
and
social
sciences
as
vehicles
for
publicizing
"progressive,"
or
left-liberal propaganda
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Today,
professors
routinely
treat
the
progressive
interpretation
of
history
and
progressive
public policy as the proper subject of study while portraying conservative or classical liberal ideas
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such
as
free
markets
or
self-reliance
鈥?/p>
as
falling
outside
the
boundaries
of
routine,
and
sometimes legitimate, intellectual investigation
銆?/p>
The AAAS displays great enthusiasm for liberal education. Yet its report may well set back
reform by obscuring the depth and breadth of the challenge that Congress asked it to illuminate
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