Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments Book

The author, now President of Oklahoma University informs, us that we do not know our own history, do not study and are not educated about the ideas and events that led to the writing of our Constitution or what previous generations have done to preserve it. Half of American high school seniors think that the United States fought World War II on the side of Germany!! 64% of the students of a top American University could not name George Washington as the Commander of forces at the Battle of Yorktown. We spend more and more money on education today and our students learn less and less. For further comments on this theme, please see my reviews of "Confederates in the Attic" and "Land of Lincoln"

Those who do not understand their rights or how they were obtained will hardly be able to defend them. When are we going to realize that our students in high school and college should not be allowed to graduate without enough knowledge of American History and Government to function as informed citizens.

Increasingly, the subjects of history and civics have been found irrelevant in today's multicultural society and not everyone agrees that the end of these studies is nigh but more and more it is becoming the prevailing view. I am wondering when English Literature will fall into the same category and follow the same route to oblivion? The reasoning being, why should we study Literature???

We are certainly traveling a dangerous path here and this book outlines recommendations that should be adopted immediately to stop the bleeding of our faltering culture.