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Diverse Classics and Whole Persons The Classic Learning Test responds to Matthew Freeman.
Raphael’s Saint Catherine of Alexandria, circa 1507. (National Gallery, London/Wikimedia Commons)
Matthew Freeman raises important questions about the relationship between classical education and diversity in his article, “Classical Education’s Woke Co-Morbidity.” He paints with too broad of a brush, however, when he implies that many in the movement to restore classical education, myself included, have been “immunocompromised” by woke theories. Hardly.
Freeman appears to disagree about which texts are...