zimfam: As a conservative teacher myself, I applaud your classroom teaching strategies. I do the same in my classroom. My approach is to question statements students make as they come up in discussions, usually informally. My liberal collegues fill their minds with the standard, biased misinformation. For instance, a student might say, “America consumes 25% of the world’s oil supply, but we are only 3% of the world’s population.” So then I sort of stop and consider the statement and say something like “Well do you think any of that oil is used by American industries to manufacture products people around the world can benefit from having? Do you think America is being greedy or is using the oil to benefit the rest of the world.” I never come out and say what they believe or have learned is wrong, I just put questions in their minds that I can tell they’ve never been taught or has never occurred to them before. I can tell that by their reactions. I’m not kidding myself that I can single-handedly overcome the liberal brainwashing by stridently confronting students with the truth, I’d loose my job, for one thing. But I’m using reason to get them to think, and to question what they accepted as fact, and then expect that they will reject the liberal notions and replace them with new thinking on their own. The goals and objectives of a conservative teacher.
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For your classroom:
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OGVlY2RhOGM0MWE5MjNmMGM2ZjY0NzcxMjMzMTc5NWI
THE UNDEFENDED CITY
..........But it is certainly so today. And standing against all this hypnotic power — the power of the mythmakers in Hollywood, the power of the information peddlers in the media, the corrosive power of America-hating professors on every campus in America… against all that we find an old warrior — a paladin if ever there was one — an old, beat-up warhorse standing up in defense of his city one last time. And beside him: a wonder. A common person… just a regular mom who goes to work, does a difficult job with intelligence and energy and grace and every-day competence and then puts it away to go home and have dinner with the family.
Against all of that stand these two.
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And there is no “bullying” involved as there is with liberal education..... like I suggested, liberal ideology is fundamentally flawed. Due to those flaws, minions are created out of issuing a sense of guilt lined with threats — emotional agruments if you will... you can see what these liberals have modeled in the classroom broadcast in all facets of daily life, especially through the media. And as you I believe one of the most important goals I have in my classroom is to help foster an environment where students are enabled become constructive skeptics and responsible constituents of society.