The Washington Post, September 6th, 1987
LYNNE CHENEY, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, had "an epiphany" when a school board official, asked why her students didn't know the history of the Civil War or the author of "Moby Dick," responded, "They know how to look it up." Mrs. Cheney's realization-that by focusing unduly on teaching students "learning skills," educators have all but abandoned the attempt to teach them content-forms the theme of her short report, "American Memory: A Report on the Humanities in the Nation's Public Schools," which the NEH released the other day. "American Memory," like so many recen...
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