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Musonius Rufus, Should Women Too Do Philosophy?, Teubner edition by O. Hense (Leipzig: 1905); see also C.E. Lutz, Yale Classical Studies (1947), p. 3ff.
For the national statistics, my resources are Involvement in Learning: Realizing the Potential of American Higher Education, Report of the Study Group on the Conditions of Excellence in American Higher Education, sponsored by the National Institute of Education, October 1984, and General Education in a Free Society: Report of the Harvard Committee Harvard University Press, 1945); the particular statistics about universities in Bloom's “sample” have been obtained from admissions offices and/or dean's offices.
See Martha Nussbaum and Amartya K. Sen, “Internal Criticism and Indian Rationalist Traditions”, a Working Paper of the World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, and to be published in Relativism, ed. M. Krausz (Notre Dame University Press, 1988); also Bimal K. Matilal, Perception (Oxford University Press, 1985).
See especially Benjamin Schwartz, The World of Thought in Ancient China (Harvard University Press, 1985).
The same view is asserted in Bloom's notes to his translation of the Republic (Basic Books, 1968), without any more satisfactory argument than what is presented here.
For this and other related evidence, and a discussion, see Mary R. Lefkowitz, Women in Greek Myth (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), p. 144.
A different and genuinely democratic approach to core requirements (at the level of elementary and secondary, not university, education) is carefully argued for in E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Houghton Mifflin, 1987).
See reference above, note 2. The commiteee that prepared the report was chaired by Paul H. Buck; John H. Finley, Jr., was vice-chairman. Its members were: Raphael Demos, Leigh Hoadley, Byron S. Hollinshead, Wilbur K. Jordan, I.A. Richards, Phillip J. Rulon, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Robert Ulich, George Wald, and Benjamin F. Wright.