It baffles me that supporting a rigorous traditional curriculum would be associated with a capitalist political and economic outlook. The only thing that I can

It baffles me that supporting a rigorous traditional curriculum would be associated with a capitalist political and economic outlook. The only thing that I can think of is that the connotations of "traditional" or "rigorous" are unappealing to the left because of their deployments in class struggle, generally on the side of the powerful. Unfortunately, we may have thrown the baby out with the bathwater...