Anthony T. Kronman's Education's End Reviewed in San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Review: Anthony T. Kronman's 'Education's End'
By Bob Blaisdell

Education's End
Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
By Anthony T. Kronman
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS; 308 PAGES; $27.50

Anthony T. Kronman believes that in the '60s, just after he got out of law school, American liberal arts professors lost their nerve.

Back in the day, teachers engaged their undergraduates in serious classroom discussion about the meaning of life. They read the classics and talked about the timeless matters of philosophy. Young people experienced a variety of thought that, according to Kronman, over the past 40 years, academic fads and the institutionalization of multiculturalism cannot or will not communicate.

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