Neither schools nor their constituents, alas, are prepared these days to embrace that reality. The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically, to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less. Education is elitist.
Civilization is elitist.
My thinking tends to be libertarian. Similarly, I oppose the meddling of campus grievance committees in the issue of date rape. We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in a totalitarian regime. Provides reviews of the latest books on French and Italian studies, including literary criticism, cultural studies, film studies, pedagogy and software.