A Corpse on the Tennis Court

Its Education Week at NRO (National Review Online), and this piece, by Jeffrey Hart, is my all-time favorite education piece. Here’s a sample. Remember the year 1988. I don’t think its better now:

Yet there does come that moment.

It came for me in the freshman composition course. The students were required to write essays based upon assigned reading — in this case, some Frost poems, Hemingway’s In Our Time, Hamlet . Then, almost on a whim, I assigned the first half of Allan Bloom’s new surprise best-seller The Closing of the American Mind. When the time came to discuss the Bloom book, I asked them what they thought of it.