Retaking the Universities

Catholic Educator's Newsletter ^ | May 2005 | ROGER KIMBALL

[guitarist]

Reading list (pardon the misspellings):
-Illiberal Education by D'Souza
-Whatever Happened to the Human Race (that's an oldie!) by F. Schaeffer and Dr. Koop
-Mere Christianity, The Abolition of Man, The Screwtape Letters (and much more!) by CS Lewis
-The Bell Curve by Murray
-Privilege by Douthat
-God on the Quad by Naiomi Schaeffer-In God's Underground by Wurmbrand
-Foxe's Book of Martyrs

[guitarist]

Great booklists; look for yourselves:

http://members.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=743
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/printma20040209.shtml
http://www.northparkchristianacademy.com/PDF/WORLD%20MAG%20-%2012-4-99%20-%20'Century%20Top%20100%20books'%20-%20Vieth'.pdf
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20040623.shtml
http://www.gcc.edu/news/publications/bookstorenew.htm
http://www.gcc.edu/news/publications/littorenew.htm

JUST FOR STARTERS!

[Coleus]

thanks, I often though about doing or looking for a thread where freepers favorite books are listed.

[fatima]

I am sick of you bump.

[ken21]

>It is time to revisit several large issues. The issue of tenure, for example. An arrangement that was intended to protect academic freedom and intellectual diversity has mutated into a means of enforcing conformity and excluding the heterodox. For those few conservatives who have managed to obtain tenure, it doubtless functions to protect them. But for the faculty in general it seems to have become a prescription for political correctness and lassitude.

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amen.

the taxpayers who support universities have no job security.

the commies of the 1950's invented tenure to protect themselves and their descendants, the new left, etc.

[ReadyNow]

I don't agree with muslims on much, but their treatment of the "trans" is right on the mark.

[ken21]

ironic that the 13th c moslems hate america and hate the blatent sexuality the most, but the university liberals side with the moslems against israel and the u.s.

the moslems would kill the trans if they had the opportunity.

[guitarist]

The far left's parternship w/Radical Islam is strategic and temporary! Even though burqua-Afghan-type Islam is more antithetical to their liberalism, they consider us a bigger threat now, so they concentrate their fire in our direction...

[guitarist]

Your wish is my command:
from 2002, FReepers' book recommendations/lists...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/645354/posts

[ken21]

how "temporary"?

i was talking to a university archaeologist who works in the sudan and he wouldn't even admist that the moslems were persecuting the christians and animists.

he said, what christians and animists!

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

There definitely needs to be an organized effort to restore dignity and sanity to formal education.

[cgbg]

Should our institutions of higher education be devoted primarily to the education of citizens — or should they be laboratories for social and political experimentation? Traditionally, a liberal arts education involved both character formation and learning.

This is a good article but I think it fails to understand the concept of what the leftists really mean by a sexual revolution or institutional revolution.

They are not idle critics and experimenters. Their leaders, at least, have a dangerous ideology that seeks to "perfect" mankind, to "transform" mankind, so we are ready to live in their socialist Utopia.

Their fanatical support of fetal experimentation, cloning, transexuality are clues to their agenda. They will settle for nothing less than the elimination of sexuality and reproduction. They want to create sexless children in their laboratories and brainwash them from birth.

They want to abolish individuality, thought, pleasure.

What they seek is what all totalitarians throughout history have desired--obedience.

[kitkat]

BUMP for tomorrow's reading.

[warchild9]

I started my first semester teaching two sections of W Civ at a Triangle University (to avoid stalkers, I won't say which, but everybody would recognize the name). Most of my colleagues are pretty middle-of-the-road-to-Libertarian, or I wouldn't have accepted the position. Note, though, that few are Christian (including Yours Truly).

[SandyB]

American colleges are a feminine instution, most students are female - male students are becoming a smaller and smaller minority - not only at the undergraduate level, but now also at the graduate level, denistry school, med school, law school, nursing school, etc.

If anyone "retakes" our colleges, it must, by necessity , be the females that do it since our colleges are mostly female.

[guitarist]

How temporary? Excellent question. Probably can't be answered with a given time frame (5 yrs, 20 yrs, etc.) It is until they view jihadi Islam as a bigger actual threat than us. Of course, millions of them did get that revelation on Sept 11, but some have flipped back to worrying about us more. I would say that it would take a big event, God forbid (big war w/Israel, another attack here, something unpredictable w/Iran,Iraq,Pakistan, etc.), to change the current equation, which, to them, says that we Christians are anti-multi-cultural, and are thus unfair to Muslims!!!! Your story about the "blind" archeaologist is quite instructive.

[guitarist]

I'm glad you are pro-life and you love your wife, but you say you're not a Christian. Do you not belive that Jesus died on the cross for our sins, and was resurrected?

[warchild9]

That defines "not" being a Christian.