From WSJopinion: Prison education can serve as a model of how to return to true learning and intellectual exchange, writes Brooke Allen
Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Collin Levy, Bill McGurn, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. Images: Reuters/Shutterstock/AP Composite: Mark KellyMany of us who care deeply about education in the humanities can only feel despair at the state of our institutions of “higher” learning. Enrollment in these subjects is plummeting, and students who take literature and history classes often come in with rudimentary ideas about the disciplines.
Never have I been more grateful to teach where I do: at a men’s maximum-security prison. My students there, enrolled in a for-credit college program, provide a sharp contrast with contemporary undergraduates. These men are highly motivated and hard-working. They tend to read each assignment two or three times before coming to class and take notes as well. Some of them have been incarcerated for 20 or 30 years and have been reading books all that time.
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