Posted on 09/26/2005 7:37:53 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne
MORE THAN 16 MILLION STUDENTS are now enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States, the largest number ever. In two years, the figure will exceed 17 million, and it will continue to grow, as the high school graduating class of 2008 will be the largest in history. Today nearly 70 percent of the 18-to-24 age cohort attends college in one form or another, and more than 80 percent of high school graduates do so. College attendance has become a near universal rite of passage for youngsters in our society, and a requirement for entry into the world of middle-class employment.
When this year's freshmen enter the academic world, they will encounter a bizarre universe in which big-time athletics, business education, and rigorous science programs operate under the umbrella of institutions that define themselves in terms of left-wing ideology. This is especially true of the 100 or so elite public and private institutions that are able to select their students from among a multitude of applicants seeking entry, and true also of the humanities and social science departments that define the political and social meaning of the academic enterprise. These students will enter the world of what we may call the left university.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
The realizations are sickening. The indoctrination camps continue to produce mind-numbed liberals at an alarming rate.
The Frankfurt School, Marxists hiding as Democrats and the NEA are the primary culprits in this decades-old power ploy.
The realization is sickening, but thats why we send our young to college....so they learn, we would like to believe, the difference. There is one man in America today who has made this non choice in our colleges and universities a challenge for all of us...his name is David Horowitz. Read his books and listen to him. He has been there.
PING!
BUMP!
An interesting and thought-provoking post. Thanks.
I used to be one of those liberals kids from the 60s and 70s. Now I am a conservative. How did that happen? Simple. I had to meet a payroll. Mine.
These kiddos will be just fine once the real world gets a hold of them.
Meanwhile, my college now urges its freshmen to become good citizens "of the world." The greatness of our nation is never, ever mentioned. For some reason, many profs think patriotism is the intellectual equivalent of knuckle-dragging. How odd. They get to have the freedom to utter whatever they wish, but will not defend it - neither in word nor in deed. Just another group of moaners, groaners and whiners. That's all they are.
However I fight back!
I decided to write my own little notes inside the margins of textbooks that I sell back, I challenge the teachers outright in class and I write all my papers from a conservative viewpoint.
It doesn't effect my grade because I do good work!
unbeliebveable = unbelieveable
The author is right that there has to be a revolution at the univerisity level. Its stunting our growth a society.
This is true in the community colleges as well.
Bump for later....a long article
I wonder if the Internet can do for education what it is doing for the analysis of public affairs on FR and others. Homeschooling may not stop at 12th grade, but continue on in a pure online mode.
Two years ago, I went back to the Univ of Minnesota after a 12-year absence.
I took a class called the History of Cuba and Puerto Rico. The class was taught by a grad student whose views (on just about everything) were extremely liberal. She prided herself on her many trips to Cuba, all taken by getting "journalist" credentials through a low-watt community radiop station in Minneapolis.
I was amazed. No talk of Castro's jailings or executions of dissidents. No talk of how we tried to foment guerilla wars across the globe. No talk of the internal repression that goes on in Cuba in a daily basis.
On occasion, I would openly question her in class and this would result in other students/fellow-travellers giving me looks that ranged from incredulousness to hostility.
I had to write a paper about Cuba's involvement in Angola in the 1970's and 80's. I backed up all my research as thoroughly as I could. I aimed for as thoroughly a non-biased paper as possible. But my sources of info took me in another direction - that of being anti-Cuba.
Needless to say, when I finished, I dropped a bombshell on the class that had the grad student sitting in the front row with her mouth hanging open!
I got an A for both my paper and presentation. The paper was scribbled with lots of red ink, the grad student writing that my sources were questionable at best. I guess this was the best she could do to refute what I had said.
You may find this previous thread of interest.
The Real Cuba - Photographs of areas where tourists aren't allowed to go.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1364430/posts
I for one will continue to "fight the good fight"
It's not a coincidence that these schools which are brainwashing students into thinking government is the answer to everything, are financially surviving only because of massive and indiscriminate government subsidies of students. This effectively eliminates parents from making the decision of where or if to send their offspring to college, and what courses of study will meet parental requirements for continuing to finance the endeavor. The result is that content of college courses and requirements for graduation are determined by popular vote of a bunch of clueless and easily swayed kids, who are quickly indoctrinated durign their first semester by leftist professors and administrators. Even parents who pay the full tab are sucked into the prevailing college culture. Virtually all colleges now formally advise parents of incoming freshmen that "it's time to let go, don't try to be too involved in your child's college life, s/he needs to start making his/her own decisions, yadda yadda". The real message here is: Hand over the money, and get out of the way, while WE decide what your child should learn over the next four years.
Community = communism. Hmmm...
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