Not so sure on point one, mainly because I think the founders deism (not theism) was mainly a way of pushing traditional religious law and political theory out of the debate on social and political organization.

Point two is possibly correct, although the UK has survived for a long time without the shared common college curriculum. However, it has had far more cultural homogeneity compared to the US until recently. So the argument for a shared college curriculum might be stronger in a multicultural nation (like Turkey??--with Kurds, Sufis, Alevis, Armenians, Christians etc)

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I think a better comparison would be say the US to the EU. We are so large and deverse that its kind of like apples and oranges comparing us to the UK.

Would a more broad education possible help the EU move along? Maybe, hard to say. You could make a good argument either way.

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> Do we really educate college students to be better citizens?

The first question ought to be: What makes for a better or worse citizen? After that a sense of how higher education does or doesn’t serve that end would be logical. The discussion so far puts all the emphasis on education and none on citizenship.