A hundred years ago, roughly 10 percent of recent American high-school graduates attended college. Today that figure is 61 percent. Are we better off?
Hardly.
“The aim of education is wisdom,” writes Robert M. Hutchins, editor of Encyclopedia Britannica’s Great Book series. But is that what contemporary college students attain in college? Wisdom?
Or do they emerge instead with what author Douglas Murray calls the nihilist’s creed: “Yours is a meaningless existence in a meaningless universe”? (RELATED: ELLIOT RESNICK: How Israel Can Win)
Nihilism actually wouldn’t be so bad. If college graduates were merely nihilists, they would drown themselves in decadence, but at least they would leave the rest of us alone. Alas, as Murray writes, “most people in their lives seek some form of certainty.” And so many graduates aren’t satisfied with declaring, like the ever-skeptical Socrates, that they know nothing. Instead, they confidently assert that they do know something: America is racist to its core.
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Author: Faith Novak
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