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The two speakers discussed their views with Education Week reporter Andrew Trotter shortly after their Sept. 29 debate hosted by the American Enterprise Institute.
This time, he said, is their “precious” chance to acquire the conceptual tools and background knowledge that will become the foundation for their intellectual lives, careers, and citizenship. “If you don‘t read the ‘Divine Comedy’ and ‘Macbeth’ [then], you‘re probably not going to,” he said.
Mr. Bauerlein cited a raft of statistics from, among other sources, the National Assessment of Educational Progress and college-admissions tests, to back up his argument that an intellectual decline has occurred. The consequences, in his view, are spelled out in the title of his new book,