A Harvard committee has suggested the school require students to take classes in religion. This sounds like a surprisingly conservative move, but after four years of college I’d recommend taking it with a grain of salt.
As Dinesh D’Souza has pointed out, many religion professors are atheists.
Also, CNN quotes the report’s rationale as “religion is a fact that Harvard’s graduates will confront in their lives.” So are sex, marriage, death and taxes. We don’t force students to take classes on those topics unless their majors demand it.
The bottom line is that college has a very specific purpose: to train young adults in an academic-minded field of their choice. This is enough of a challenge, as almost one-third of those who enter college don’t finish. Other life lessons are up to students themselves to figure out, as do the 45-plus percent of Americans who haven’t pursued post-secondary education by age 25. Educators should be trimming unnecessary material from the curriculum, not adding more.
Robert VerBruggen blogs at http://robertsrationale.blogspot.com.
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