Princeton's Methodology of Destruction

History is not a mere cataloging of chronological events but a recognition that each epoch, each period, each action reveals something important about our collective humanity. 

 By Emina Melonic  June 3, 2021

For decades, ideologues in academia have been deconstructing Western thought and re-creating it in their own image. In the last several years, and with the rise of “woke politics,” higher education (at least where the humanities are concerned) has been an experiment in absurdity. The latest example is Princeton University’s proposed changes to its undergraduate classics curriculum.

According to the Princeton Alumni Weekly, “the Princeton faculty-approved curriculum changes . . . eliminating the requirement for classics majors to take Greek or Latin.” The impetus behind making such a decision comes from the need to address “systemic racism” in the United States, which apparently is very much alive in the classics department at Princeton. To remedy this scourge, students though still encouraged to take Greek and Latin, no longer will be required to do so. 

According to the director of undergraduate studies and a professor of classics, Josh Billings, the reason for eliminating the language requirement is to allow different views into the classroom. “We think that having new perspectives in the field will make the field better,” Billings said. “Having people come in who might not have studied classics in high school and might not have had a previous exposure to Greek and Latin, we think that having those students in the department will make it a more vibrant intellectual community.”

There is absolutely nothing wrong with encouraging students from various backgrounds, be they ethnic, political, racial, economic, or any other to pursue classical studies. But what makes Billings’ statement ironic is that instead of Princeton’s classics department setting out to bring new knowledge to the incoming students, it is the supposedly diverse students who are given the charge to change the department’s way of teaching and perhaps even thinking. ...........To Read More....