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Acad. Quest. (2020) 33:551–557 DOI 10.1007/s12129-020-09932-4 NATIONALISM James R. Stoner, Jr. Accepted: 18 August 2020 / Published online: 29 October 2020 The National Association of Scholars 2020 In his chapter on “The Clean Slate” in The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom distinguished European and American students in the 1960s and the sort of education they brought with them when matriculating to the university. The European students came deeply versed in their country’s culture and well-read in its literature; they had heard about its leading authors since childhood and had read them in high school. The American students, by contrast, were comparatively a “clean slate,” having spent their high school years reading the likes of Catcher in the Rye or The Fountainhead. (If young Americans were to read the previous sentence, one would have to explain that the phrase “clean slate” was a reference to John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding and its denial of “innate ideas,” then explain who Locke was, then what the Enlightenment was, and so forth.) European students came to the university to specialize, Bloom explained, and in their sophistication thought there was nothing more to learn from the authors with whom they were
Academic Questions – Springer Journals
Published: Oct 29, 2020
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