Abstract
Today, the concept of general edu cation or liberal education is a particular bone of contention in American higher education. There is little agreement on its content, and disagree ments are intense, cast more in or than in pedagogical terms. But we can discern a dominant direction of reform, toward political correctness. The opinions that first captured the alle giance of humanities faculty members at leading universities are filtering down to more and more of our colleges and uni versities, and they are shaping the profes sional training of administrators and other educational experts. Politically cor rect opinion is, of course, not yet every where, and it is resisted effectively at some non-elite institutions with strong or religious traditions. But that resistance will continue to be labeled contentious and reactionary by the experts. Programs that are aggressively incorrect, for example, are beginning to have trouble with accrediting associa tions, and we can expect the troubles to increase. There is a culture war in America today between sophisticated progres sives and morally conservative pop ulists, and also between the elite opinion of educators and the moral majority. In that context, correctness has
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