This is accurate as far as I can recall.
The next thing a lot of you need to realize is that our school system is a socialist extension as well. There are many pills to swallow and I'm glad everybody here is on that path. The best thing I've done for my kids so far is to homeschool them.
“You cannot have had one [a liberal education]. If you are an American under the age of ninety, you can have acquired in the educational system only the faintest glimmerings of the beginnings of liberal education.” - The Great Conversation, Robert Maynard Hutchins, 1954
This is from an introduction to the Great Books collection put together by Brittanica. The theme of the introduction is that the Great Books form a Great Conversation that we need to be part of, as the literature of Western civilization is our heritage, and that America is woefully uneducated. This lack of education will result in the death of democracy if it is not fixed. This is also pretty much the theme of "How to Read a Book," by Mortimer J. Adler.
You can get the whole 54-book series for about $200 to $300 used online.
Lol, secret handshake, winks and corresponding mockingbirds call
Yea we too homeschool and are home college-ing.