Opinion: Want to study abroad? Check out America.
By Mitch Daniels Mitch Daniels Contributing columnist Bio Contributing columnist March 11 at 5:27 PM Mitch Daniels, a Post contributing columnist, is president of Purdue University and a former governor of Indiana.
Students in the school’s Grand Strategy program, having read such classic authors as Thucydides, Clausewitz and Machiavelli, as well as modern masters such as Henry Kissinger, can earn credit for a summer “odyssey” in the form of a road trip across their own country — or anywhere else in the world, provided the odyssey isn’t dangerous. Yale helps finance the trip, and a written account of the journey becomes a part of the final grade.
By equipping some with the skills and credentials for success, while cocooning them in what are often highly homogenous intellectual environments, the United States’ higher-education institutions contribute to the growth of this cultural crevasse. In Cotulla, Tex., he became friends with a 45-year-old ranch manager and part-time musician. When the student asks about the revolver on the floor of his pickup truck, the ranch manager casually says, “If it comes to me or them, it’s gonna be them.” “Them” turns out to mean drug runners who don’t merely trespass on private property: “If they see ya,” he says, “they shoot ya.” Our wide-eyed Yalie thinks to himself later, “Where I come from, black ice was the greatest threat to our safety.
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