The resignation of Harvard president Claudine Gay after “facing national backlash for her administration’s response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and allegations of plagiarism in her scholarly work” does not solve the problem at America’s oldest college and other elite schools. She and many other university presidents are only a symptom of what’s wrong with our system of education, from bottom to top.
Education, like a building or a life, must have a firm foundation or whatever is built on it will collapse when storms or other challenges come.
Ivy League schools, especially, were established on a foundation of biblical principles. From its founding in 1636, Harvard’s motto has been “Veritas,” or Truth. It was meant to demonstrate not only that objective truth exists, but where to find it. A proper education was thought to require attention to…
