Sleeping With the Enemy

Accuracy in Academia ^ | July 14, 2010 | Malcolm A. Kline

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Sleeping With The Enemy

Malcolm A. Kline, July 14, 2010

A large chunk of the blame for the ever-deteriorating state of education goes to some of academia’s favorite targets. “Republicans have been asleep on the schools,” author and activist David Horowitz claimed at a July 9, 2010 breakfast on Capitol Hill sponsored by Hillsdale College. “We don’t have a conservative educational reform movement.”

Horowitz authored the Academic Bill of Rights and founded Students for Academic Freedom. “Curricula in virtually every liberal arts college are dedicated precisely to social change,” Horowitz writes in his recent pamphlet Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: The Alinsky Model. “The explicit goal of our most prestigious schools of education is promoting ‘social change,’ and even more specifically ‘social justice.’”

“The mission statements of entire universities express a devotion to social change, which is also the routine subject of commencement addresses, often given by anti-capitalist radicals such as Angela Davis and unrepentant terrorists such as Bernardine Dohrn.” Thus, it is hardly astonishing that this educational experience seldom, if ever, even achieves its stated goals.

“You may have noticed that even though there are more than 600 women’s studies departments, which are nothing more than political parties, there has never been one protest of the treatment of women in the Muslim world,” Horowitz said at the Hillsdale First Principles meeting. “I asked Ayaan Hirsi Ali if she was ever invited to speak to a women’s studies department.

“She said ‘once’ but it turned out to be a fundraiser for the American Enterprise Institute given by a trustee of the University of California.” Horowitz indicates that the reason for the dichotomy between stated aims and actual practices is simple: subterfuge.....

[Westbrook]

“Public School”, the way it is implemented today, is based on a model set down by Karl Marx and imported in the 1850s by Horace Mann.

Slowly but surely, the Marxian model replaced the one implemented by American genius, Noah Webster.

Then came John Dewey, father of “Progressive Education”, followed by BF Skinner and Carl Rogers, who gave us “Affective Education”.

Blend-in pedophile Alfred Kinsey and Margaret Sanger “sex education”, and we have the pathetic mess the government schools have become today.

Today’s tax-funded, union-run government schools are better characterized as the “Bus Ministry of the State Church of Humanism”.

School Districts are better understood by their Marxian name, “School Collectives”.

If the public is going to participate at all in education, it should be in the form of no-strings-attached vouchers that can be cashed-in at the educational facility of the parent’s choice, thereby bringing market forces to bear on education, which, I submit, will improve it marvelously.

As for what defines an “educational facility”, the government MUST NOT dictate what that is. Anybody should be able to set up an educational shop. Market forces will promptly weed out the defectives.

Of course, there is always homeschool, which is my preferred education medium, and which was also encouraged by Noah Webster.

[RitaOK]

Great post, as public education has gone unchallenged in every berg and burrough for generations now, and unfettered has risen to cheerfully hand us marxism. We have been in a deep sleep and by our own neglect are reaping what we have sewn. Of course, some blame can be laid at the church door step, but much of what has been taught in good faith has simply been undone, insidiously and by stealth, from grade school through university. Looks like the small, patient advances by the enemy have finally ensnared us. The undoing will take more than the November election, I expect.

[MrEdd]

“We don’t have a conservative educational reform movement.”

I like David Horowitz much of the time, but when he is full of bullshit, he is really full of bullshit.

Not having a movement going the direction David Horowitz wants to go is not now and never has been the same as not having a movement.

Home schooling is a conservative education movement - taking education away from government entirely. It gathers more steam every year.