“Ultimately, colleges have inherited the spiritual mission of churches. As religious beliefs have declined with the rise of science, especially among educated people, people started to turn elsewhere to ask the big questions: What does life mean? What is the world about? People turned to works of art, to literature, music, theater, philosophy, which were in turn brought into college curricula.”
PROFESSOR WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ, author of “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite,” in an interview with the Atlantic Magazine
