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• At first glance, there seem few reasonable grounds not to endorse a broadening and enrichment of undergraduate education, especially in a world in which women have become regular participants in the economy and politics, and in which the cultures of other civilizations enjoy increasing prominence in our national and international life. Presumably s...
• At Stanford, and other universities, where multiculturalism may have less to do with a coherent educational program or philosophy than with a series of interlocking attitudes and practices, what multiculturalism in the curriculum assuredly does not mean is a renewed emphasis upon the mastery of foreign languages or the close study of complex civili...
• We are not, in other words, talking about close and respectful study of the Koran which has shaped the consciousness of millions of people throughout the world since the seventh century.
• We are talking about various participants, many of them “revolutionaries,” in today's increasingly homogenized global system. Thus the most popular multicultural texts are written by people who may differ from elite Stanford students by sex, “sexual preference,” skin color, wealth, or place of birth and access to opportunity, but who share many, if...
• What is difficult to debate at all is the value—or, indeed, the intellectual and moral integrity—of requiring students to agree with or even applaud views and values that mock the values with which they have been reared.