Are you sure you really remember your curriculum?
Hello, E. Just a quick defense of Dale on this point.
Though I may be wrong. He and I, as I recall about him, are both products of the Texas public school system. In my case it was a very small central Texas town. Our history courses consisted of Texas history, three or four times; the only other history course was a very badly taught American history course taught by, if you've spent much time in Texas you would know, the local football coach.
As for civics, political whatever. Forget about it. We had early morning assemblies and loud speaker announcements about the red hordes on the way. This was in the dark ages, early 50s, but from what I hear from friends and relatives, it may be undergoing a revival.
No doubt, we were worst than a good many. But we were certainly not atypical.
I wonder how this compares with Dale's experience.
Whoops. As I read further I see he came along much later and out of a suburban Dallas public school system.
Dale, your experience at Brown was similar to mine at UT in the 50s. Different world altogether. Harry Ransom had put together a small faculty of stellar profs with a very special program, Plan II. When I later spent time in Ivy League schools, I came to appreciate how remarkable that was. |
