Donald Kagan's lecture at Yale in November 2001 should be required reading for all educators, particularly those relatavists and revisionist who would divide us in this hour of need for national unity. We have a generation of educators who do not understand the honest search for truth and the simultaneous need for students to understand the necessity in our democracy of a unifying culture. This must change. In fact, we may need a litmus test for K-12 educators to protect our culture and our democracy.
Perhaps we should call it patriotism.
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