Dumbing down . . .

. . . or "21st-century philistinism":

Cultural institutions like universities and galleries no longer challenge us or encourage us to question what we know. Instead they flatter us. But flattery will get us nowhere.

Frank Furedi asks, "Where have all the intellectuals gone?"


.: Posted by Duane Bidwell on Monday, October 11, 2004

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