EDUCATE, DON'T INDOCTRINATE

The Collins Report ^ | 2/28/10 | Suzanne Eovaldi

[brucek43]

EDUCATE, DON'T INDOCTRINATE "I thought she was a Communist," my friend said about her daughter home on break from a university near Chicago. My friend said her daughter's political and social attitudes now were very different than those of her and her husband. After sepending at least 30 years around the higher education crowd, I've done a lot of thinking about what happens to our kids. Only after I retired was I able to put into perspective what I went through and then to try to figure out what was causing so many conservative middle class kids from typically conservative families to become so radicalized. The stealth cause lies in the academic hiring committees in the departments of our colleges and universities. These hiring committees are made up of senior department members very steeped in the "60's if it feels good, do it," ideology. These committees have instinctive antennae that pick up on any conservative themes, phrases, or beliefs of prospective new department members they interview in the "soft" subjects such as English, journalism, history, literature, philosophy, social and political sciences. These hiring committees often are comprised of 60's males who entered and stayed in college to avoid "Nam," and of uber feminists so committed to their feminist creed that any conservative threat in their midst quickly is disqualified as a prospective hire. Our higher education is turning out young grads who know how to be very multicultural and ethnically diverse but not evenly balanced in terms of America's vision, history, cultural and religious history. The America...

[brucek43]

education indoctrination

[ETL]

"This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English..."
--B.H. Obama

YouTube Video:
The O'Reilly Factor confronts Bill Ayers:
October 24, 2008:
(note the red communist star on his shirt)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3uvK9gTIY
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From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845
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REVOLUTION: Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
[Revolution] Interview with Bill Ayers, Revolution #63, October 1, 2006:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."
Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama’s circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==

[raybbr]

Wow, he just figured this out?

[browniexyz]

Gee. it’s going to be really difficult to convince me not to go into debt to pay for college!! /sarc

[ETL]

Wow, he just figured this out?

It's not about him figuring anything out. It's about getting the word out to as many people as possible about what is happening in our schools. Not everyone knows or understands this. Lots of people are just now beginning to wake up and get interested in politics. Just because WE know, doesn't mean everyone else does. :)

[Ayn And Milton]

Pretty unsettling stuff. Esp. because it’s the case in America. I’m in Holland, and over here there was also a strong upsurge of leftist propaganda in the ‘60s and ‘70. But it did not last, as it did over there, judging from the article.

In my experience ‘postmodernism’ was the last of the socialist-minded fads. Dutch professors and teachers wallowed gladly in this garbage and passed it on to their students. I never bought these bizarre and egotistical fantasies and nightmares by Foucault, Derrida, and their ilk. But quite a few students found it all very attractive (read: in the ‘80s). As all fake religions do, it promised unlimited freedom to its adherents; why be married to only 1 partner for life, if you can ‘get around’ as much as you like? Well, from my own observation I know that the majority of these simpletons made a complete mess of their life, and of that of their children and students too.

After PoMo, the tide changed. In general, Dutch education is surprisingly traditional, with little political indoctrination. It needs adding, however, that the quality had sunk over the past decades, in terms of general knowledge, and math/language skills.

How come?

Well, socialist politicians applied total egalitarianism in the ‘60s and ‘70s to secondary school education. The results were disastrous, in that the pupils with real talent got dragged down to the level of those with minimal talent and motivation.

It’s under repair as I write.

Lesson to be learned: avoid any fashionable ideology in education. The glittering gold of today will be the moral sh*t of tomorrow.

[vekzen]

The deveopment of a dictatorship in most countries is top/down. A guy with tyrannical aspirations gets elected; at some point elections are suspended; he consolidates power throughout socieity, including suppression of free press and control of enducational institutions so that they spout the party line.

In the U.S., a bottom/up process is well underway. The educational system and the main stream media have adopted a left wing ideology. Through a the labyrinth of political correctness and the idea that only left-wing ideas and narratives are valid, they suppress contrary views.

In other words, the media and educational system have created the foundation for a leftwing dictatorship. Ask yourself, how many of the leftists in these institutions would object to violent suppression of Tea Party protests? How many would object if massive election fraud allowed Obama to be re-elected? The propaganda apparatus for the destruction of democracy and freedom is solidly in place.

[ETL]

Thanks for that nice summary. Did you write it yourself or find it somewhere?

[ETL]

Ask yourself, how many of the leftists in these institutions would object to violent suppression of Tea Party protests?

Undercover agent Larry Grathwohl discusses the Weather Underground's post-revolution governing plans for the United States:

Larry Grathwohl:

"I asked, 'well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?' and the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say 'eliminate,' I mean 'kill.' Twenty-five million people. I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people. And they were dead serious."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn ("intellectual"), referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers ("intellectual") (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm

[BobL]

Actually, it’s up to us parents to indoctrinate our kids, before others take that liberty. If that were done, the education system could still have all its commies, but they would be LAUGHED AT by kids who know what Communism is, what it has done, and what it can do again (like my kids)...same for Liberalism.

I realize that parents, generally, want to allow their kids to develop their political beliefs on their own...but that only works when the rest of the system (i.e., the schools) complies and stays non-partisan. And that is clearly NOT the case in today’s society.

[Missouri gal]

What is surprising to me is that the 60’s radicals seem to have successfully passed their garbage Progressivism to recent college graduates from farm communities and small towns. These young people didn't attend the big liberal colleges, so it has bled into small town America. The new disciples of Progressivism are surprisingly quite militant.

[randita]

I’m still a firm believe in, “Train a child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it (that includes shes)”. They may take an alternate route for a while, but if you’ve laid a good foundation, they’ll return to it when they get out into the real world and create their own family units.

I’ve seen this firsthand over and over.

[leprechaun9]

The seeds of destruction are planted in Grades K-3. They germinate and are fertilized (through efforts of the NEA) in grades 4-12. When the students reach “higher levels of indoctrination”, their brains are in the harvest stage.

[Jacquerie]

You are a very busy blog pimp.

[Arrowhead1952]

These young people didn't attend the big liberal colleges, so it has bled into small town America.

Our local school had one of the radicals as a science teacher in the late 90s and our daughter was not getting anything but the indoctrination treatment. The parents of a number of students had a meeting with the principal and the teacher. She got fired.

[steelyourfaith]

It is amusing that Bill Ayers, who proudly bombed the NYC Police Headquarters with ten sticks of dynamite, called the police wanting protection from the FoxNews cameras and microphones. Moron weasel hypocrite anyone?

[John D]

I’m still a firm believe in, “Train a child in the way he should go, and he will not depart from it (that includes shes)”. They may take an alternate route for a while, but if you’ve laid a good foundation, they’ll return to it when they get out into the real world and create their own family units. I’ve seen this firsthand over and over.

Ditto
While my oldest son has always stayed conservative, I think mostly because he joined the military right after his 19th birthday and very shortly after 9/11, my youngest son and daughter had their liberal moments. They are both back into the fold now though.

[Freedom4US]

“I was a victim of government indoctrination”;

I remember as young man, my father sort of suggested that I join the military, as I was aimless and shiftless.

Of course being so much smarter than the old man, my reply was something to the effect that they “brainwash” people, and therefore such a move was unthinkable. Part of the problem is the disconnect most people have with respect to the military — their views are shaped by hollywood and academia, in recent decades hardly supportive in any way of the military.

What I discovered is that “brainwashing” and political indoctrination is absent in modern military training and careers, but conversely the average civilian is bombarded daily with a level of nonsense and self-destructive ideology that is truly breathtaking.