A major part of President Trump’s agenda is to reverse the leftist infiltration of the military. That includes cleansing the service academies of DEI.
In today’s Martin Center article, Jeremy Tate argues that a good move in that regard would be to adopt the Classic Learning Test.
He writes:
Rooting out this obvious politicization of the military academies is about much more than restoring academic standards. As my friend and the president of the Association of Classical Christian Schools, David Goodwin, put it, wokeness trains people to view America as racist and bigoted. It’s a national-security crisis when our future military officers are taught to hate the country they are being commissioned to defend.
How would the CLT help? Tate continues:
I founded the CLT to do the exact opposite. The texts are longer and more robust, rooted in the great tradition and focused on virtues, including nobility, courage, self-sacrifice, and command — exactly what the military academies should be focused on. Students preparing to take the CLT aren’t filled with meaningless texts designed to be forgotten as soon as the test is over. They are instead called to contemplate the persuasive power of Pericles, the beauty of Shakespeare, the simple profundity of Tennyson, and other must-read authors and works.
Why not?