End of professionalism, a new dark age?

My reflection on this week’s reading led me to an idea that I have continually wrestled with and have found to be a source of constant frustration. I am reminded of an argument I encountered in in reading “Closing of the American Mind” by Alan Bloom. The thrust of the argument is that students are being indoctrinated in to a religion of acceptance and openness as oppose to being taught to think cr...