The Ramsay Centre has announced it will provide the University of
Wollongong (UoW) with $50M for a BA in "Western Civilization":
https://www.ramsaycentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/RCWC-MEDIA-RELEASE-UOW-MOU.pdf
But it is not clear to me that the Center's curriculum, or its teaching
methods, will be of benefit to the university, students, or western
civilization. Spending a lot of time studying the "seminal texts of the
Western tradition", will leave less time for learning 21st century
knowledge and skills. Foregoing the benefits of modern teaching
techniques, will place these students at a disadvantage.
Such an education will not help protect a modern democracy from a
coordinated attack conducted via social media. Such attacks are being
mounted today by scientists and engineers with advanced technical skills
employed by nation states. Someone with the Ramsay Center's education
would be as useful defending western civilization in the 21st century,
as classically educated military officers of the 20th century on
horseback were facing a mechanized army.
More at:
https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2018/12/ramsay-centre-curriculum-in-western.html
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Tom Worthington, http://www.tomw.net.au
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