Posted on 10/11/2020 6:34:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
We cannot say we were not warned. Decades ago, in an article perhaps long forgotten, novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand gave an ominous warning on the state of American education at all levels, especially the ideologies and philosophies that were beginning to become pervasive within its university system. Whatever one may think of Rand's novels or personal character, an objective analysis of her work on educationspecifically displays her thoughts as unquestionably prescient.
If one believes the infestation within universities and public classrooms of Critical Theory and other like minded disciplines is a recent phenomenon, brought to their attention by pushback and defunding from President Trump, one is mistaken. In her article "Cashing In: The Students Rebellion," Rand points out that universities in the 1960s began to become training centers for "activists," much like Marxist in the 1930s, who learned they could utilize legitimate current issues in order to manipulate the masses into cooperation, oblivious to the incoherent, illogical ideologies that compromised professors had effectively forced students to accept (Rand, 9). These activists would later plant themselves in education, media, and politics, or even serve as muscle on the streets to work toward indoctrinated ideological objectives.
Rand continues to explain why 1960s students chose U.C. Berkeley president Clark Kerr as their target, given his liberal record. Ironically, Rand notes, "it is clear that the revels chose Kerr as their first target, not in spite of his record, but because of it" (25). In other words, a person poorly intellectually trained who is only versed in how to "play ball" or "go along to get along" knows how to do only what he himself did in university: avoid conflict and compromise. With whom?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
GOPe/RINOs
Uh, modern indoctrination, not modern education.
A lot of conservatives want to boycott public education. I think that’s the exact wrong answer. We need a “long march through the institutions”, where we flood the public schools with good, decent, patriotic teachers who are unafraid to teach kids that America is great because of freedom and opportunity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_march_through_the_institutions
Cut back on federal student loans. Say $5000 first year, $10000 more for an associate degree or $30000 more for the first four-year degree, $15000 more for the first masters degree, $50000 more for a JD degree, $150000 more for an MD/DDS degree.
Allow new private student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy if the education purchased was not worth its total price paid.
Put Communism on a financial diet.
It needs to lose weight.
Our children have been specifically targeted a century by our pubic schools, news, media, churches and now social media.
We had John Dewey’s early 1900’s Progressive (Marxist) anti-home schooling influence, followed by The Frankfurt School’s mid-1900’s social Marxist plan for children, then Hollywood’s 1950’s communist influences, then NEA’s No God push in our schools.
Then, the 1960’s CPUSA push of college youts for war protests, drug use and wanton fornication, then the 1980’s sitcoms ridiculing parents, then the 1990’s queer push, then the 2000’s self-esteem facade.
Now MSM, SJW groups and social media are feeding their ignorance and arrogance.
Ayn Rand article ping! :-)
“We need a “long march through the institutions”, where we flood the public schools with good, decent, patriotic teachers”
True. How to best do that is the 64k question.
It’s taken the left a hundred years, and they did it surreptitiously, ie, with us asleep at the wheel. They are not going to be asleep at the wheel if we try the same thing.
What do you propose?
Bookmark.
The new curriculum will make our white children targets
Ayn Rand on education and how we got to where we are.
Government schools in the 21st century provide young Americans with much, much more than ordinary indoctrination.
Indoctrination instills doctrines and attitudes to the extent that they are accepted uncritically by the student. In traditional indoctrination, the student must memorize certain formulaic expressions of doctrine and confess them as being true. In Christian traditions, indoctrination takes the form of catechesis and recitations of memorized creeds, doxologies, hymns, and verses of scripture. In 19th and 20th century government schools, indoctrination took the form of recitations of memorized pledges, patriotic hymns, and an almost hagiographic account of US history and civics.
In traditional indoctrination by both the church and government schools, the student was expected to continue to his education beyond the rote indoctrination and to apply reason in evaluating the world around him. The indoctrination was intended to guide the student, but not to prevent the acquisition of truth.
Students in 21st century government schools are programmed to be good little social justice warriors. They are taught to avoid any educational experience that may conflict with their indoctrination. They are taught a post-modern relativism that prevents the use of reason in evaluating the world around them. With this programming, they cannot come to an understanding of the truth even it is before their own eyes.
Yes, students in government schools are indoctrinated. But it is worse: they are also programmed very much in the same way that a destructive cult programs its zombie followers.
Donald Trump took the first small step when he banned funding for critical race theory.
It’s a baby step, but at least it’s a step in the right direction.
I propose that decent people take teaching jobs and teach. It’s not hard to get hired (you just have to accept stress, low pay, and the reward of making America a better, more free country).
“I propose that decent people take teaching jobs and teach.”
You sound like a decent person. Are you going to accept your own proposal?
And there are millions of decent people but they don’t seem to be motivated to do what you propose, probably for the same reason you’re not.
Basically you’re saying I propose somebody else do the hard work.
I think we better come up with plan B.
The universities are the entities that should be making the loans, not the government. If the universities were making the loans, then they would have a vested interest in the students being able to get a good job to repay the loan after they graduate.
Actually, yes. I already did. It's a drop in the bucket, but enough drops and they add up.
Conservatives should push homeschooling and online K-12 as hard as possible. Government education is hopelessly corrupted - but since the Prussian model of instruction by a classroom teacher is today so horribly backward and outdated, it is a great time to make an end-run around the entire edifice. And take advantage of the Left's fascination with lockdowns to argue that government schools have become too dangerous to ever re-open.
Spot on! How many Conservative Professors have jobs at any of our universities? Grade school level are little more than indoctrination centers. Liberalism is so invasive it becomes cultist and making emotional, irrational people who can't discuss politics without calling people names, screaming insults, in short...they are ruined; they are radicals. America The Beautiful doesn't exist for most of them.
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