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Higher Education vs. Competency and Diversity: An Afterword

Well, it is true that some humanists do try to justify their
discipline as just another form of technology, as in the "digital
humanities" movement. The effort here is to use the quantitative
techniques of science to reveal that the key cultural products-
such as Shakespeare's plays-are the result of collaborative,
market-driven efforts situated in a particular time and place. The
scientific evidence allegedly deconstructs "the myth of genius."
For Tocqueville, it is almost stereotypically democratic to want
to believe that the excellence or greatness of a particular person
couldn't possibly be a real cause. That doubt of personal authority,
Tocqueville adds, ends up taking out all claims for personal significance, for the dignity of the singular destiny of each particular
human life. The person becomes a mere part in a technological
process beyond his comprehension and control, and the study
of the humanities become just another form of "undergraduate
research" in which the student becomes a specialist without spirit
or heart as part of a team. There is, of course, no "I" in teamwork,
and the humanities are deprived of their true attractiveness as
the place where the technological issues are subordinated to the
existential ones.
The real subject is justice
The atrophying of the existential dimension of liberal education
is typically traced to the sixties. Concern moved from the inwardness of the particular seeker and searcher to activism on behalf of
social justice. The student radicals, such as the authors of the 1962
Port Huron Statement, criticized our institutions of higher education for "sacrificing controversy to public relations." They were
alive to the democratic view that technology is for justice, and so
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