A Nation of Dunces?

I recall a conversation I once had with a fellow professor, wherein he remarked that he enjoyed teaching, because anything that he told his students in class seemed to come as an exciting new revelation to them.

I thought of this remark when reading an article in the Sunday paper by Susan Jacoby entitled "A Nation of Dunces" based on her book entitled "The Age of American Unreason".

According to Jacoby, the three trends fueling this "new anti-intellectualism" are ... excessive video, the erosion of general knowledge, and arrogance about the lack of knowledge.

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