Is it time for us Americans to do some deep thinking about what the purposes of education in our country are?

In a piece that appeared at the American Spectator website today, R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., the founder and editor in chief of the American Spectator, argued that while we have been paying a whole lot of attention to the recent slaughter on a California college campus, we have lost sight of what the purpose of education is, especially in higher education:

http://spectator.org/articles/59347/death-campus

Granted, some may have looked at the question I am posing here and wondered why I am even opening this topic for discussion on the grounds that it's so obvious. There is, however, more here than first meets the eye - and in my view Tyrrell poses questions that need to be explored.

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