Posted on 09/06/2004 11:40:18 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Steve Schiro got a history lesson he didn't expect on his first day attending West Valley College in California last week.
"Are you going to continue to let (President Bush) lie to you and are you going to let him fool you?" his history teacher asked the class. "Do you think the Republicans in New York are telling you anything but lies? We do have a voice, and that's November 2nd. It's OK to be Republican, but it's hot in hell."
According to Schiro, his professor also took the position that police are bad and are only there to beat up and discriminate against blacks and Mexicans.
"He admitted to students that he will make no effort to be objective, and that's just too bad, deal with it," says Schiro.
Welcome back to academia, 2004.
All across the country this week, students are beginning their college education and, in many cases, getting a rude awakening.
It's not always about education, they say. Often it's about indoctrination.
"I think that it is really wrong for a teacher to indoctrinate impressionable students in class," says Schiro of San Jose. "Can you imagine if any conservative did 1/100th of what he did in just the first day?"
The difference today is more students are speaking up and standing up against the tide.
Last year, Ben Shapiro, a recent UCLA graduate, released "Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth," an expose of what students face in classrooms across America.
Following up on that best-seller, WND Books has just released, "Freefall of the American University: How Our Colleges Are Corrupting the Minds and Morals of the Next Generation," by Jim Nelson Black.
"It's happening in colleges all across the country," explains Joseph Farah, publisher of both "Brainwashed" and "Freefall." "Instead of being educational institutions designed to encourage the free discussion of ideas, universities have become prisons of propaganda, indoctrinating students with politically correct (and often morally repugnant) ideas about American life and culture."
Jim Nelson Black dares to name names and provide specific and credible insights from faculty members, administrators, professional observers and analysts who have witnessed and chronicled the intellectual and ethical collapse taking place within the academy.
Something very disturbing is happening in colleges all across the country, says author and educator Black. Instead of being educational institutions designed to encourage the free discussion of ideas, universities have become prisons of propaganda, indoctrinating students with politically correct (and often morally repugnant) ideas about American life and culture.
The book offers a broad overview of the issues, from the history of the problems to several analyses from a broad range of academics and professionals. It also provides observations of the university students themselves, in their own words, from schools all across the nation.
Most importantly, it shows clearly what must be done to make America's colleges institutions of truth, honor and integrity once more.
really?
When?? What subject? Do you still live in the area? : ) I moved from Los Gatos to GA three years ago, but my parents live a mile away from WV.
I am old, so I don't remember any of my teachers' names...heeheehee
Yup...taught Bankruptcy Law there only for a semester or two. Some students complained that I was TOOOO HAAAAAARRRRRRD.
One actually asked me once, "Do we have to know this?"
Still live in the general area.
I found out this teacher has a history of this. Including giving an "F" to a paper he didn't agree with.
BY the way, I have found out the teacher has a history of this kind of behavior.
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I know about indoctrination from first-hand experience in the late 1980's when I was an undergrad. The fear of getting a bad grade kept me quiet at first. Nevertheless, I quickly learned my lesson and I started to shy away from subjective courses and I took more analytical and math oriented courses such as accounting, structural engineering, and statistics.
Unfortunately, I had many classmates who were indoctrinated. The bottom line is that if the students become indoctrinated then they never really learn to think for themselves. They mostly look at symptoms of problems in life and say, "Let the government fix that!" Never mind the fact that the government created the problem in the first place. Because they were so heavily indoctrinated, they focus on symptoms while ignoring the cause.
Since it has been a while since I graduated, I can also say that most of my friends who were heavily indoctrinated did not pursue a profession related to their fields of study. I think that the indoctrination made them inept in a capitalist country. With all the indoctrination going on, all they got was a bunch of theoretical hogwash based on the now failed Marxist philosophy. End result: a lot of them went into law and I became an architect.
My favorite link related to this subject:
http://www.noindoctrination.org/
Indoctrination is everywhere except at the Christian colleges. Where is everywhere? Public, private, large, small, in-state, out-of-state, junior college, four year college, ...
If students spoke up and said, "You're using taxpayer funded classtime to propagandize us with your politics", or "This is a classroom not a political rally - please stick to the subject of this course" or "I will be bringing a tape recorder to all future lectures" EACH AND EVERY TIME the idiot used class time to spew his agenda, and he was EMBARRASSED in front of the students each time he did it, they'd probably be much more quiet about their personal politics. Nobody wants to be embarrassed. They only do it because they know the students won't speak out against it.
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