[lbo-talk] Bringing the "Great Books" to Iraq

[mike larkin]

An exemplary token of this phenomenon is the civilian
contractor John Agresto, appointed last year as senior
advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education....Prior
to going to Iraq, Agresto was briefly the president of
St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, an
institution known for its Eurocentric “Great Books”
curriculum and he now runs his own educational
consulting firm, Agresto Consultants.

Agresto has no training in Middle Eastern society or
culture and no experience in the region. He served
briefly as interim chair of the National Endowment for
the Humanities, to which he was appointed by Ronald
Reagan. Along with William Bennett, and Lynne Cheney,
the wife of the current Vice President Dick Cheney,
Agresto was one of the leading right-wing figures in
the “culture wars” of the 1980s."

http://www.juancole.com/2004_05_01_juancole_archive.html#108460014259530839

	

		
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