{"id":11971,"date":"2019-09-06T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11971"},"modified":"2019-09-05T17:49:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T00:49:46","slug":"from-icon-to-just-a-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/from-icon-to-just-a-con\/","title":{"rendered":"From Icon to Just a Con"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/  American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of us who came of age in the 1970s revered the university\u2014even as it was still reeling from 1960s protests and beginning a process that resulted in its present chaos and disrepute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans of the G.I. Bill-era first enshrined the idea of upward mobility through the bachelor\u2019s degree\u2014the assumed gateway to career security\u2014and the positive role of expanding colleges to grow the new suburban middle classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite student radicalism and demands for reform, professors had been trained in the postwar era by an older breed of prewar scholars and teachers. As stewards, they passed on their sense of professionalism about training future scholars and teachers\u2014and just broadly educated citizens. In classics, I remember courses from scholars such as British subjects H.D. Kitto and Michael Grant, who lectured on Sophoclean tragedies or the late Roman emperors as the common inheritance of undergraduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overwhelmingly liberal and often hippish in appearance, American faculty of the early 1970s still only rarely indoctrinated students or bullied them to mimic their own progressivism. Rather, in both the humanities and sciences, students were taught the inductive method of evaluating evidence in hopes of finding some common explanation of natural and human phenomena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/09\/01\/from-icon-to-just-a-con\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Most of us who came of age in the 1970s revered the university\u2014even as it was still reeling from 1960s protests and beginning a process that resulted in its present chaos and disrepute. Americans of the G.I. Bill-era first enshrined the idea of upward mobility through the bachelor\u2019s degree\u2014the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-375","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13498,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/scholars-and-sense-colonial-pipeline-israel-etc\/","url_meta":{"origin":11971,"position":0},"title":"Scholars and Sense: Colonial Pipeline, Israel, etc&#8230;.","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 4, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"","rel":"","context":"With 4 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 4 comments","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/scholars-and-sense-colonial-pipeline-israel-etc\/#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13289,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/scholars-and-sense-podcast-with-vdh-and-his-cohosts-conrad-black-and-bill-bennett\/","url_meta":{"origin":11971,"position":1},"title":"Scholars and Sense Podcast with VDH and his cohosts Conrad Black and Bill Bennett","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/feeds.buzzsprout.com\/1770105.rss In the first episode of\u00a0 Scholars & Sense, Bill Bennett, Conrad Black & Victor Davis Hanson talk about the American economy, inequality in the education system and the on-going left leaning bias in the media. 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