Commentary: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he wants every college in his state to teach courses in “Western civilization.” And I say: Bring it on.
Sophie Craig, 19, cheers during a gathering after University of South Florida students and faculty members join a statewide student walkout to protest Gov. Ron DeSantis' education policies at the Tampa campus on Feb. 23, 2023.
But any course that did that would teach students to question everything, including DeSantis. And I rather doubt that the governor and his GOP disciples want that.Nor do Democrats, who quickly denounced DeSantis’ proposal as an effort to indoctrinate American — or, even, white — superiority. Taught properly, however, a course on Western civilization would undermine some of the Democrats’ own favorite ideas, especially about race and identity.
In Florida, for example, several charter schools and right-wing Christian academies focus their curricula on classical texts. They proudly advertise the “centrality of the Western tradition” and “nourishing the soul on truth, beauty and goodness,”But here’s the essential truth that conservatives won’t tell you: The Western tradition has never spoken with one voice about what’s true.
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