Posted on 05/20/2008 3:20:19 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
Some parents who are concerned about their children receiving a steady diet of liberal-left indoctrination in schools and colleges regard the summer vacation as a time to show these young people a different way of looking at things, with readings presenting viewpoints that are unlikely to be heard in classrooms that have become indoctrination centers.
Fortunately, there is a growing body of literature both books and articles presenting a very different viewpoint in readable language.
The academic year often ends with commencement speakers who have been in government, academia, foundations or various crusading movements, who tell the graduates how much nobler it is to go into such organizations, rather than into business.
Such self-flattering talk is seldom challenged by educators. But an outstanding recent book, The Best-Laid Plans by Randal OToole, gives a richly documented account of government actions and their consequences, and shows a far from flattering side of politicians, experts, and environmentalists who have ruined cities and suburbs in countries around the world.
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Why would conservatives send their kids and their money to liberal schools?They are supporting the enemy,plain and simple.Some education.
What type of English is not readable to a college student ?
A little disappointed in this article. Usually, he gives a longer list. But I will get his Basic Economics book for my grandson, who is taking business and economic courses in high school and that is the path he wants to go.
Are you asking this question rhetorically?
“Basic Economics” is a must read. I also enjoyed Sowell’s, “The Vision of the Anointed” and I forget the writer, but another good book about the failure of socialism is “The Tragedy of American Compassion”.
Shakespearean english? Old or Middle English (ie, Chaucer, Beowulf)? I enjoy older literature, but I know lots of people who are well above average in intelligence and still struggle with the archaic style used in most Shakespeare, and even I couldn’t read Canterbury Tales or Beowulf in their original ‘english’ at all - though I’d love to learn.
Altho I agree with you re Middle English, I believe the author meant political opinion, history and economics books :)
IOW what we’d consider standard high school reading of 40+ years ago.
Shakespeare’s English is an early form of Modern English. He virtualy invented modern English. ‘Beowulf’ is written in Anglo-Saxon English that’s closer to German than what we know as English.
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