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So, instead of promoting the American ideals, we are to turn our classes over to any and all other idealists to present their views of government? Why is this better?

It isn't better. It's just different. I recognize that an ideology is being imposed even in the selection of courses a college chooses to offer.

You said it best when you said: Don't we have the right to determine what is put into the minds of the young we have spent years raising? No?

In other words: "We've already indoctrinated our kids with our values and you come around and want to undo all that?"

Some professors want to do that, for sure. Yet others want to reinforce the values you have already instilled in them. Either way it is a struggle for the minds of those who attend college. And, morever, we are willing to pay to subject ourselves and our loved ones to that because we see value in it.

It is not indoctrination to uphold the rational standard of intellectual inquiry between free individuals. That culture of the individual is what our western civilization is about. Inculcating that culture is a primary goal of higher education. That Left wish to dispose of that - their notions of man stand in direct contraction of the history of man. Their only intellectual method is indoctrination. You are so close to it that you do not grasp that you have been taken over by it and have internalized it. Again, this is my point.

Would you agree with me if I said your notion of value is Hegelian, spiced with an urge for immanence? It seems to me that your view of education values forums where people get their heads butted in order to achieve what you deem to be an improvement to the status quo.