Saturday, March 5, 2011

Quotation of the day for March 5, 2011

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Quotation of the Day for March 5, 2011



"Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine."

- Tony Judt, from his memoir The Memory Chalet.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Mar. 2, 2011

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