AGORA ? Does America Need More Philologers?

There is something really, really wrong with American college education, and our AGORA regulars feel the same way. This week, noted historian-anarchist-poet Dan Georgakas, swinging lefty, takes on The National Herald's Executive Editor Constantinos Scaros, a right-handed power hitter, in a battle of the minds over: Debasing College Education, Utterly Shunning Philology. While the agree college education has root problems, they have different takes on how to fix it. From time to time, an issue emerges and inspires various minds to converge, often at odds with one another, to discuss it. Hopefully, collective enlightenment will result from such conversations. The Ancient Greeks did that in the Agora, the original marketplace of ideas, and we, their modern-day descendants, aspire to continue that tradition. WHAT'S YOUR OPINION?

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