If Dr Craig had a chance to speak to your church, what would he say? Well, one of his most important messages is what you'll hear in this

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Go to Reasonable Faith.org, and thank you. I don't want to say what a delight it is to be with you this morning for giving me

the great privilege of sharing the message this morning this is a privilege that I don't take lightly the American educational community. The first of these was entitled

Cultural Literacy, what every American needs to know by Edy Hirsch, and it documented the

fact that large numbers of American college students do not have the basic background knowledge to understand the front page of a newspaper or to act responsibly

as citizens. For example, a quarter of the students in a recent survey thought that Franklin D Roosevelt was president during the Vietnam

War. Two-thirds did not know when the Civil War occurred.

One-third thought that Columbus discovered the new world sometime after 1750.

In a recent survey at Cal State Fullerton, over half of the students could not identify

Chaucer or Dante.

90% did not know who Alexander Hamilton was,

even though his picture is on every $10 bill.

These statistics would be funny if they weren't so alarming.

What has happened to our schools

that they should be producing such ignorant people?

Well, enter Alan Bloom, who was an eminent educator at the University of

Chicago and the author of the second book I referred to, The Closing of the American

Mind. Bloom argues that the closing of the American mind.

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