Losing a Beachead

World Magazine ^ | Sept. 12, 2009 | Marvin Olasky

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Losing a beachhead Back to School: Rob Koons, a University of Texas at Austin philosophy professor and a Christian, poured six years into development of a UT Program in Western Civilization and American Institutions. Then administrators yanked it away from him | Marvin Olasky AUSTIN, Texas

—"And Jesus said to His disciples . . . 'it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.' When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, 'Who then can be saved?'" (Matthew 19:23-25).

"Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get? Boney fingers" (Hoyt Axton).

I try to leave myself out of news/feature stories. I need to be in this one, slightly. That's because, from the viewpoint of some university administrators, I was Mr. Wrong—and without an exhibition of my good/bad record, what happened to Mr. Right might not seem so bizarre.

For two decades I was a highly rated (by students) professor at the University of Texas at Austin, one of the U.S. academic leaders as measured by size, endowment, and influence. But secular liberal professors and administrators hated the way I spent my non-classroom working time: I wrote pointed columns and books from a Christian perspective, edited WORLD, and consorted with conservative politicians.

Not so the hero (or villain) of this piece, University of Texas philosophy professor Rob Koons. He is also known as a Christian, but for two decades he wrote largely for academic journals rather than magazines. He has been soft-spoken and diplomatic, patiently attending faculty meetings and sitting on committees. Until last month (see sidebar below) he generally refrained from assaulting what has become a corrupt system of higher education. My manners were poorer.

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This summarizes a great deal that is wrong with our entire system of education in the USA today. We conservatives have allowed the Marxists to completely take over our university system, so that now our tax dollars are spent to indoctrinate children in ideas that are totally opposite of what we believe in. Not only that, but Marxists have huge funding pouring into the universities to promote continued shredding of all teaching of Western Civilization, replaced with politically correct, historical revisionist garbage.

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ping!

[American Constitutionalist]

( A mind is a terrible thing to waste, don’t send anyone to a Liberal collage )

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Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, this is happening at almost all state funded colleges and universities. This article is about evnts that happened at The University of Texas at Austin, but it’s happening everywhere.

The one small ray of hope in the continuing marxist takeover of our universities is that online/internet options for gaining higher education degrees are becoming more and more popular and feasible. This may allow many more people to have more choice in where they send their kids to school, especially if conservative/Christian colleges and universities continue offering more degree programs which can be completed online at lower cost. Maybe private colleges will once again be able to offer some competition to the Marxist indoctrination centers.

[LetMarch]

And they want us to save all of our lives to pay for them to indoctrinate our sons and daughters, to their leftist mind thinking, and also push for grants from the public tax trough, and keep them tensured for life with no accountablity?

May they all be fired and replaced with men like the early founders of our great universities, such as Yale, Harvard, Princton, and return to the original purposes of those colleges and universities.

[boxlunch]

Yes, it is hard to believe parents spend huge sums of money to send their kids to these schools, sometimes going into debt themselves, or allowing thei kids to take out student loans, then wonder why their kids come home from college with “brains full of mush”.

[LiteKeeper]

College students today are not being educated, they are either being indoctrinated by the left, or simply under going job training. Too bad.

[sten]

i can get a camel through the eye of a needle... so long as you don’t care about the condition afterwords

[webboy45]

Bad translation. Gamel means both camel and camel thread in Aramaic. The reference to the needle tells us that thread in the correct translation.

[naturalized]

Better quote from Scripture would be:

In fact everyone who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

[spankalib]

Austin bump.