[conservative physics]

I used to get alarmed and mad every time I read one of these articles, but upon further reflection, indoctrination doesn't work anyway, so what's the big deal?

If indoctrination worked their would still be a soviet union.

No amount of indoctrination can hide the truth forever or steal a persons desire for freedom.

[Gefreiter]

I'm not quite where you are but I'm getting there.

Draft-dodging hippy filth took over academia 35-odd years ago, and have spent the intervening decades seeking to foment revolution.

Well, we're all still waiting.

And the huge majority of the students who attend their classes ultimately graduate, find respectable, maybe even lucrative jobs, and end up as donors with far more influence on the life of the school than the faculty.

So as their students leave to take over the world, those teachers remain, forever protected from the ups and downs of the working world, and ever more disconnected from real life.

I don't think a whole lot of people really fall for their foolishness. They just tolerate it and move on.

[rdcorso]

It only works for a little while,until the kids grow up and their life experiences show that it was all a bunch of BS.The opinions don't change when the person takes a job in the education field or gets run over by a bulldozer before learning the truth.

[edsheppa]

indoctrination doesn't work anyway, so what's the big deal?

For one thing, think of the valuable learning foregone. For example, Mr. Bennish might have also given the contrary arguments I'm sure have occurred to all of us here. Economists call this the opportunity cost.

[roses of sharon]

LOL, indoctrination works fine, just look at the Oprah audience, and the NYT bathhouse boy's editorial page.

Their power, along with their other allies in communication, ie, Hollywood, network "news", and academia, influence an enormous amount of the voting public.

Which is why conservatives and libertarians are rare in public office.

They are destroyed by a left-wing media that colludes with left-wing liberal and moderate candidates of both parties.