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Unless their underlying assumptions are accepted, Searle says, the cultural leftists' explicit arguments seem weak. "From the point of view of the tradition, the answers to each argument are fairly obvious," he observes. Thus, "it is not the aim of educa- tion to provide a representation or sample of everything that has been thought and written, but to sive students access to works of high quality. [Education there- fore] is its very nature 'elitist' and 'hi- erarchical' because...