Socialist, Marxist and Communist Indoctrination
School kids are being prepared for a socialist world government (under the
United Nations), to which most public school teachers would not object. The kids are
being taught that one culture is just as good as another. They are being taught
that it isn't fair for the United States to be the world's only superpower. They
are being taught that the U.S. uses up "more than its share" of the world's natural
resources.
Related topic:
President Obama has plans to
use public schools as indoctrination centers.
National Education
Association Selling its Saul. The National Education Association (NEA), the U.S.'s largest
labor union, is promoting communism to the millions of American public school teachers it represents.
Teachers who are influenced by their union's efforts are more likely to indoctrinate American children into
communism. For the past several months, the NEA website has recommended that its members read books by
communist sympathizer Saul Alinsky. And, for a time, the website listed October 1 as a day for
teachers and students to celebrate the anniversary of the Communist takeover of China by Mao Zedong.
NEA
Tells Community Organizers 'Read Saul Alinsky'. President Barack Obama started his political
career as a community organizer in Chicago. Apparently, the National Education Association intends to
train more community organizers to grab political power by recommending on its official website for them to
read 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama appears to have closely followed Mr. Alinsky's
guidebook for seizing power.
Teacher's
reason for controversial Cuba trip: I'm a communist. A Manhattan high school history teacher,
who resigned under fire after taking students on a spring-break "Club Red" field trip to Cuba three years ago,
is a self-proclaimed Communist who tried justifying the jaunt by telling Education officials he needed to see
Fidel Castro one more time before the dictator died.
Who is John Locke?
My wife and I attended a parents' night at our son's school. As we entered his English classroom, I
noticed that the walls of the classroom were covered with photos of Karl Marx, Joseph Stalin, and Vladimir
Lenin. The eighth-grade students had been studying George Orwell's "Animal Farm." On every wall
was a hand-made poster featuring a photo of Karl Marx, some biographical information, along with some pithy
bit of wisdom attributed to him. As we left the room, I whispered to my son, "Tell your teacher that
your father wants to know when she will teach the work of John Locke." My son responded, "Who is
John Locke?"
Five Rights the Left Doesn't Want You to Have.
The left loves to whine and complain about how evil Republicans are, but they sure don't want anyone to talk
back. On many issues, the left openly tries to prevent the right from speaking out. You need not
look beyond what's going on at our nation's colleges to see how the left operates. Often times, college
campuses are overrun with Marxist professors and uninformed students who will try to stop invited conservative
speakers to even open their mouth and utter a single sentence, without being interrupted, shouted down, or, in
some cases, have the entire meeting be taken over by "protests."
They needed a "study" to determine this?
New
Study Shows Law Schools Hiring Far More Liberal Professors Than Conservatives.
While previous studies have analyzed the gender and ethnic makeup of law school professor, this
study breaks new ground in analyzing the political leanings of recently hired professors. The
study looks at factors such as work experience, publications, and even Facebook profiles for a sample
of 149 professors hired in the past five years.
'ACORN Youth Union' Chapters Were Funded by Justice
Department, Says GAO. The U.S. Justice Department gave a group called the New York Agency for
Community Affairs a grant of $135,130 in fiscal year 2005 to "provide youth leadership training to students
at select New York City schools, form 'ACORN Youth Union' chapters, and coordinate student campaigns to
address issues such as school funding, neighborhood safety, and school governance," according to a Government
Accountability Office report released this week.
Seven
Places Where politics Doesn't Belong. [#5] In the class room: Unless the class is
political science, politics doesn't belong in the class room. In fact, it's absolutely appalling that so
many teachers feel free to try to indoctrinate their kids. Let's tell the kids that Bush is a terrible
guy! Let's show the kids Al Gore's new movie! Let's sing a song about Barack Obama!
Hey, let's not. Instead, how about educating the kids and leaving the politics elsewhere?
Chicago
School Refuses to Host Rove, Welcomes Obama Appointee. A private university in Chicago that
refuses to host former senior Bush adviser Karl Rove, arguing that welcoming a "political" speaker ahead of
the midterm elections could threaten its tax-exempt status, has added an Obama administration appointee to
address the student body. Loyola University Chicago is hosting Eboo Patel, an Obama appointee to the
White House interfaith council, next month, calling into question the school's rationale for rejecting
Rove's appearance.
No teacher left behind.
Results in the public school system are increasingly measured by standardized test results. Many educators
are faced with the unappealing prospect of actually doing the job that the tax-payers have hired them to do; teach
their students. ... The social engineering experiment known as public education has been much more concerned with
pushing their socialist agenda than in teaching little Barry and Micki how to read, write and do math.
Group
sees Graduation Day bias for left. The Obamaites are proving a much bigger hit than the Bushies
ever were on the cap-and-gown circuit. A survey by the conservative Young America's Foundation found
that nine officials from the Obama administration have been invited to speak at commencement exercises at
the nation's 100 top-ranked universities this spring alone — compared with 14 officials from
the administration during President George W. Bush's eight years in office.
The Naked Left. [Scroll
down slowly] Colleges used to be places of learning, debate, and free thought -- long ago.
Academia is no longer like that. The soft disciplines like political science, history, and philosophy
have become pretentious tools in the hands of aging Marxists and their craven pals. Politically correct
speech, which sounds like it comes right out of Orwell's 1984, was the serious and severe creation of the
once-respectable college administrations.
Ivy League Useful Idiocy.
Big Government would not exist were it not given sanction by the people. Those who continue to support
it have been duped in large part as a direct or indirect result of the ideological subversion of our academic
institutions. The leaders in all fields of our society were raised in the politically correct, militantly
liberal academy, and so it is only natural that the influence of socialist ideas has infected every aspect of
our culture. In so doing, academia has produced leaders that undermine our society rather than helping it
to flourish.
Deadly
Triumvirate Destroying America. [Scroll down] It should also be noted that two other institutions
are, in part, responsible for selling the American public the fraud that is Barack Obama. There are the major
universities and colleges that have become home to education as biased, dishonest, and fraudulent as that of the
mainstream media. These major universities are dedicated to indoctrination with a liberal and radical point
of view rather than dedicated to education. ... These major colleges have become centers of radicalism, anti-Americanism,
anti-military, anti-conservative, and anti-Israel forces. ... What's worse, this indoctrination is already underway
even in grades K-12.
The War on Truth: [Scroll
down] Modern education has also become largely divorced from the founding principles of learning: Take
truth and critically build upon it, and reservedly doubt when truth requires doubt. Disciplines like history
have been mutilated into freaks reflecting the bitterness of educational elites. Soft sciences like sociology
are simply police-state guardhouses. We have not yet reached the point in Orwell's 1984 where two plus two
equals five, but with no clear dividing line between objective truth and politically correct thinking, some of us
may live to see that day.
Hard
Indoctrination, Soft Indoctrination, and the Books that Change Us. There are few problems as
misrepresented or misunderstood as that of indoctrination in American schools. ... Looking back at my own
education from the vantage point of four post-graduate years in the university of the Real World, I must
re-ask myself: Did I experience indoctrination as an undergraduate political science and English
double-major at BSU?
Teachers
Take Kids on a Protest Trip to Arizona. Standing in front of a wall-to-wall mural featuring
a who's who of revolutionaries, including Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, and boldly
displaying the motto Patria o Muerte, Venceremos!!! (Fatherland or Death, We Shall Overcome!!!), a group
of teachers, students, parents and community activists in the Los Angeles Unified School District gathered last
month for an unusual field trip — to Arizona, to protest that state's controversial immigration law.
'Fire
Them All' At Central Falls High. [Scroll down] The long-term solution to the disasters of
our "educational" system, which functions as little more than tax-supported propaganda-camp day-care centers, is
to remove the government from its operations completely through the "transformation" of privatization.
Then, and only then, will you see the free interplay and accountability of free competition on a free market
work its wonders, just as it does with shoes, refrigerators and a million other sectors of our economy.
How Bad Is the Indoctrination
in our Colleges? There are no open conservatives on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts
and none that the conservative students who were hosting me could identify. My student hosts were political
science majors and the absence of conservative professors was a real problem for them given the extreme and abusive
nature of many of their professors. One professor gave an exam, for example, that consisted of a speech by
President Reagan. The exam question was: Explain why Reagan is wrong.
Homeschooling vs. Howard Zinn.
[Scroll down] While I may not be a history major, or a certified teacher, I can read these books, teach
from them, and supplement the text with additional curriculum of my choosing. If my child were in a public
school, what would they be learning from? One of the more popular texts is The People's History of the
United States by the late Howard Zinn, a radical Marxist.
How to Pollute a Mind:
Lessons from John Dewey and Van Jones. A new Ivy League "fellow" will soon have the opportunity
to teach students his belief that white people are "steering poison into the people-of-color communities" and
that America should give up its wealth to the American Indians. This June, Princeton University will welcome
to its hallowed halls former Obama Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist. The story of
how America started down a path leading to communist instructors in our classrooms begs to be told.
Is
this what they mean by 'it's for the children'? Students in San Francisco public schools
are being organized by their unionized teachers to protest cuts in tax-supported education budgets,
according to SFPublicPress. "On Thursday [3/4/2010], San Francisco public school students as young as five
will get a real-life learning experience about civic engagement — through protest.
Students from kindergarten through college plan to convene at Market and Powell streets in the late
afternoon to protest cuts to public education during a coordinated political action called the Rally
for California's Future."
Getting
through to unions. It's amazing what a mass of pink slips can do to make a teachers union see the
light — especially when the layoffs are publicly hailed by the president of the United States.
On Monday [3/1/2010], President Obama endorsed the decision by Rhode Island's smallest, poorest city to fire the
entire unionized faculty of its notoriously underperforming high school.
Public
Sector Unions Tarnish the Golden State. Last week, teachers in the San Francisco area planned
to take their students out of school in order to attend a protest about proposed cuts in education spending.
According to a piece in the SF Public Press, children as young as five years old were slated to attend under
the auspices of their schools, until the superintendent quashed the idea because of safety concerns.
Aside from the disturbing specter of children being used as political props by their teachers, the spectacle
is ludicrous.
Dissing America: Unlike
"global warming," "patriotism cooling" is real and extremely dangerous. In our schools, national pride is
considered biased, ignorant, and rude. How dare we think of America as exceptional?! Our kids are
no longer taught the incredible sacrifice our boys at Normandy made for freedom. I recently read that
educators are pushing a new curriculum which would eliminate much of America's early history. The more
ignorant our kids are of the value, the struggle, the uniqueness, and the price of freedom, the more passive
they are when freedoms are systematically taken away. And yet, our schools are teaching songs about
Barack Hussein Obama, mmm...mmm...mmm.
What Does 'Racial Socialism'
Sound Like to You? The United States today has slipped toward race-based socialism: That's the
true name for an overwhelming bias for one race above others, in employment, promotion, and educational opportunities.
Our media are constantly stirring the witch's brew of racial grievances, constantly making black people feel aggrieved
and white people feel accused. Our schools drive that lesson home with young and innocent kids in a totally
ruthless way. Repeat that for twelve years of schooling and TV, and you have a brainwashed kid.
Daddy's not a dinosaur, Mama's not a moron.
Obama, Ayers and the unelected czars running America from the shadows knew that in order to make their plan work,
they had to indoctrinate school children. After a couple of generations passed through the public school
system, they would be ready for Plan B. Moms and Dads thought that their children were safe in class
as they set out to work each day. Little did they know that Daddy was being portrayed as a dinosaur and
Mommy a moron by a system bent on indoctrinating rather than educating the young.
Conservatives, End the
Apology Tour. [Scroll down] National Public Radio offers curriculum materials on nearly
all subjects. And so does the far-left magazine The Nation and the radical group PETA. In
the midst of this takeover, many conservatives have retreated to their homes, choosing to educate their own
children with their own curricula. But public education should be the concern of all who are worried
about the country. Public schools produce teachers who spread the gospel of social justice even in
private and religious schools. Public schools, which we all pay for, produce voters, workers,
citizens, and prison inmates.
Great Myths of the Great
Depression: Students today are often given a skewed account of the Great Depression of 1929-1941 that
condemns free-market capitalism as the cause of, and promotes government intervention as the solution to, the economic
hardships of the era. In this essay based on a popular lecture, Mackinac Center for Public Policy President
Lawrence W. Reed debunks the conventional view and traces the central role that poor government policy played
in fostering this legendary catastrophe.
Not Ashamed to
Love My Country. Liberalism has contributed greatly to the decline of patriotism. The
hostile takeover of our schools by Liberalism has indoctrinated many of our kids to hate their country.
They are encouraged to sing the praises of Barack Hussein Obama, but not of God and country.
Bill Ayers and the real threat to
education. Imagine your child's teacher telling you his days in jail and violent protesting were
formative to his teaching philosophy. Most parents would have a serious discussion with the principal, at
the minimum. But the teacher who brags about such beginnings is now a "Distinguished Professor of
Education." Despite his specialty as "Professor of Curriculum and Instruction," he trains future
teachers to dispense with curricula and discipline, as well as tests and grades.
Did
someone mention Bill Ayers?
Conservatism and the University Curriculum.
One topic the undergraduates at ... the vast majority of [American] universities and colleges are unlikely to find covered
is conservatism. There is no legitimate intellectual justification for this omission. The exclusion of conservative
ideas from the curriculum contravenes the requirements of a liberal education and an objective study of political science.
A Call to
Arms for Parents Upset About Obama's Public School Address. Public school parents cannot afford to be
passive any longer. You cannot simply delegate your child's education to others — some who are
wholeheartedly committed to subverting the traditions and values you hold dear — and walk away. You
must be prepared to work as hard as homeschooling parents when the need arises. You must make every
effort to know what is going on in your children's schools — and now, obviously, coming down from the
executive branch — and become a parent activist in what in some places is beginning to look like a
resistance movement.
Stupidity,
Schooling, and the Take-Over of America's Culture. Half-a-century ago, a band of Leftist thugs violently
took over the administration building at Columbia University and hijacked the American education system. From that
moment on, they used this system to indoctrinate — in fact brainwash — generation after
generation into their cult of Leftism. For the next five decades (pseudo)-intellectuals, hiding
behind tenure and "Academic Freedom," have been spewing greater and greater nonsense designed for one
purpose and one purpose only: sabotaging and eventually destroying all of Western Civilization.
Indoctrination of
our youth: School teachers, at all grades, often use their classroom for environmental,
anti-war, anti-capitalist and anti-parent propaganda. Some get their students to write letters to
political figures condemning public policy the teacher doesn't like.
U.S. Universities:
Education or Indoctrination? Nobody wants to think that he or she is paying for his or her
children to be indoctrinated rather than educated. Unfortunately, on campuses across the country, the
line between indoctrination and education is being blurred and ignored on a daily basis. Even more
appallingly, students and faculty members are victims of enforced campus orthodoxy.
The Government Is Indoctrinating Our Children.
The government and its friends are indoctrinating our children all for control of their minds, your freedom of
choice and our future. It must stop, because history when taught properly has already shown us where it leads.
Viral Video 'The Story of Stuff' Is Full of
Misleading Numbers. The California-based filmmaker has an online hit with "The Story of Stuff,"
a 20-minute video that is being used in thousands of schools to explain America's dangerous obsession with
material things — and one that some critics are calling a misleading diatribe against capitalism.
The Story of Stuff's kid-friendly illustrations and easy delivery have endeared it to environmentalists and
educators alike.
Student Says Teacher Scolded Him for Viewing
FOXNews.com. A Michigan high school is investigating allegations that one of its teachers
berated and belittled a student for taking part in what the teacher considered an unacceptable activity:
reading FOXNews.com. A young man who identified himself only as Mitchell, an 18-year-old senior at
Traverse City West Senior High School, called in to Rush Limbaugh's radio show Thursday and said he was
yelled at in front of his classmates for reading the "wrong" news.
A Huge Serving of Academia Nuts.
There is nothing sacrosanct per se about the university which, like any human institution, can profane its
founding principles and grow corrupt and oppressive. The German universities of the 1930s, for example,
despite their long tradition of rigorous scholarship, were by no means citadels of informed thought and genuine
research, but outright propaganda factories, preparing students' minds for the absurd theories of National
Socialism, the restriction of free expression, and the absorption of sundry false doctrines.
Obama Blames America.
Five decades of teaching in colleges and universities across the land, portraying the U.S. as a power mainly
responsible for injustice and evil, whose military might was ever a danger to the world — a nation
built on the fruits of greed, rapacity and racism — have had their effect. The products of
this education find nothing strange in a president quick to focus on the theme of American moral failure.
One-Party
Classroom. Indoctrination — as opposed to education — takes place when
opinion is taught as scientific fact; when syllabuses provide no room for alternative views that might
actually be correct; and when assigned readings contain no texts that challenge the instructor's point of
view. Indoctrination is the attempt to impose an orthodoxy on students, to tell them what to think
instead of teaching them how to think. Such instruction is alien to the core principles of the modern
research university and the democracy that supports it. It is also unprofessional under existing
university standards.
No "Progressives" Left Behind. In
One-Party Classroom, [David] Horowitz and [Jacob] Laskin examine 150 courses at a dozen universities. ... "One
particularly telling example is the book Teaching Science for Social Justice, which is forthright in its aim: to
replace science with political activism." The exact quote from the textbook authors is: "By illustrating how
science brings about different kinds of change, we make the claim that all teaching and learning science is political."
Moral Education for the New
Order. The Rasmussen folks last week revealed a poll wherein American young people are just about evenly
divided on whether they prefer capitalism to socialism. Among our under-30 crowd, 37% prefer capitalism,
33% socialism, and 30% are undecided. Sucking at the teat of the state has never looked so good, apparently.
Well, this certainly helps explain Obamamania.
Return of the useful idiot. Capitalism
over socialism would seem to be about as settled as opinion gets, ranking somewhere up there with the earth being
round, penicillin being better than bleeding, and that Shakespeare fellow being rather talented. Primary
culprits in the survey were those under the age of 30, who gave the nod to capitalism over socialism by only
a 37 percent to 33 percent margin, with a clueless remaining 30 percent "unsure." Several
decades of politically correct leftist indoctrination in our high schools and colleges has apparently taken
its toll.
Obama's
Most Perilous Legal Pick: Judges should interpret the Constitution according to other nations'
legal "norms." Sharia law could apply to disputes in US courts. The United States constitutes an "axis
of disobedience" along with North Korea and Saddam-era Iraq. Those are the views of the man on track to
become one of the US government's top lawyers: Harold Koh. President Obama has nominated
Koh — until last week the dean of Yale Law School — to be the State Department's
legal adviser.
The Editor says...
If the dean of the Yale Law School believes all that, imagine what the classes are like.
Critics
Decry Obama Nominee for State Department Legal Adviser. Former Clinton administration official Harold Koh,
who has been dean of the Yale Law School since 2004, once wrote that the U.S. was part of an "axis of disobedience" with
North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Koh also has long held that the U.S. should accept international law when
deliberating cases at home. Obama nominated Koh on March 23 to become the State Department's legal
adviser — an appointment that, if confirmed by the Senate, will give Koh far-reaching influence
over the extent to which international norms affect U.S. law.
Why
Did UVa Cancel Classes Only This Time? On Jan. 20, 2005, George Bush was sworn in as
president of the United States. On Jan. 20, 2009, Barack Obama [was] sworn in as the
44th president of the United States. The University of Virginia decided to suspend classes
on only one of these important days. Can you guess which one?
Jackson Public
Schools board member to teachers who did not show inauguration: Go home. Jackson Public Schools
board member Sheila Patterson had a strong message Tuesday for some teachers who did not "feel it was important"
to show the inauguration of President Barack Obama during class. "They don't belong in this school
district — not the type of district we have here," Patterson said at Tuesday's board meeting.
Why are
our Kids so Brainwashed? Sadly, it appears that the government schools these kids have been subjected to have
failed to teach their charges about anything like the American system, federalism, even science seems neglected. But
they SURE taught their kiddies that government is there to spend, spend, spend, that government is to be treated like our
collective parents, and that the war in Iraq is obviously an evil venture. Obviously. And, yes little kiddies,
The One, your very own Obamessiah, is flying to the rescue like a super hero.
Another Barack in the Wall.
Usually, children's books do not scare me. But I just read a children's book entitled "Barack" by Jonah Winter, with
illustrations by AG Ford, published on September 30, 2008 by Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of Harper Collins
Publishers. "Barack's" dust jacket states that it is for children ages 4-7. This book scared me very
much. ... To help protect your child from "Barack" I present some of the information missing from that book. If your
child's school has "Barack" make sure that this missing information accompanies it.
Teachers' liberal bias permeates Tucson
High. A true American loves this country and, despite like or dislike, shows respect for the current
president. But I have seen Young Republican Club meeting posters torn down by my peers. I have heard the same
jokes about Sarah Palin so many times that I could repeat each of them without stuttering. I have listened to
students laugh at Sen. John McCain as he gestured to his supporters to stop the "booing" — the "booing" against
the presidential candidate that each one of those students supported. Yet when President-elect Obama's speech
was shown, the classroom was dead silent.
Obama in Leftland:
The permissible range of thought on such topics as protected minorities, protected species, protected psychosexual
deviations, et al. is clearly spelled out from kindergarten onward. Young teachers in the 1970s proudly
acknowledged their political biases: They were the New Left in action, on a long march through the institutions.
But many of today's young teachers — in consequence of the long march's brilliant success — don't even
realize that they are left-wing ideologues. As far as they know, their ideas are innocuous
and mainstream — just like the New York Times!
Ayers' Agenda: First-Grade Guinea Pigs.
Our first-grader astonished her father at the end of the past school year as he dropped her off at her D.C. public
school, Horace Mann Elementary, where he had attended school in the early 1960s. She told him that her
teacher announced her impending marriage — to another woman — to the class. Following her
revelation, this teacher encouraged questions from the children. Our daughter also mentioned a
book the teacher read aloud, "Uncle Bobby's Wedding," about two male "gay" guinea pigs, promoted by
the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Transgender Lobby for children.
Bill Ayers' Scary Plans for Public
Schools: Most of Ayers's socialist propaganda is financed with taxpayers' money at state
universities and teachers colleges. Some of the schools that have adopted Ayers-style pedagogy have
received grants from ACORN or from Bill Gates's charitable foundation. You might assume that Ayers's
political ideas would put him on the outer fringe of the left-wing education establishment. However,
his peers recently elected him to serve as vice president for curriculum in the American Education Research
Association, the largest organization of education school professors and researchers.
Don't Mess
With Texas... Textbooks! By now, you most likely know that Texas has become ground zero for the
latest battles in the textbook wars. While conservatives and progressives take their stands on the issue,
I wonder: What would America's Founders think about this feud?
Texas Kicks Out Liberal Bias From Textbooks.
For years, liberals have imposed their revisionist history on our nation's public school students, expunging
important facts and historic figures while loading the textbooks with liberal propaganda, distortions and
cliches. It's easy to get a quick lesson in the virulent leftwing bias by checking the index and noting
how textbooks treat President Ronald Reagan and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Obama
Pushed on Our Kids in 8th Grade Textbook. Over at RealDebateWisconsin Fred Dooley was contacted
by the mother of a Racine Unified School District 8th grade student in Wisconsin public schools about an
outrageous thing she found in her son's school textbook. Apparently, in this textbook supposedly
teaching about literature, one of the books being pushed as a perfect example of that subject is
Barack Obama's memoir Dreams from my Father. That's right, a book by a current political candidate for
president is being pushed on our children as "literature." It also seems probable from campaign donation
records that a principle member of the publishing company is a large Obama donor.
Mom
Angered to Find Obama Speech in Son's Middle-School English Text. A Wisconsin mother is
furious that her tax dollars helped buy a middle-school textbook that includes a passage from Barack Obama's
speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention — but has no mention of John McCain.
Virginia
Teachers Union Sparks Outrage With 'Obama Blue Day'. Virginia Republicans are in an uproar after the
state teacher's union sent an e-mail to its members encouraging them to wear blue-colored shirts to school to show
their support for Barack Obama. State Republicans are calling it an undisguised attempt to influence students'
political views.
Sacrificing the
Children: [Scroll down] In the lesson plan for junior high schoolers, the adolescents are
encouraged in their correspondence with Congress to cite [the Children's Defense Fund]'s specialty: a litany of how many children
suffer every day in America. It calculates how many babies are born without health insurance, how many
children suffer corporal punishment, how many babies are born into poverty, how many children are arrested, how
many children are killed by guns, etc. The implication is that Congress and the deities of Big Government
can heal these tragic numbers with additional federal spending.
Some Wicked Friends of
Public Schools. The goal of the Nazis was to compel all children in Germany to only go to state
schools in which there would be no religious instruction, no instructors except for Nazi-approved instructors,
and no textbooks except those prepared by the Nazis. … The goal of the Nazis was not to make sure that
German children learned to read and write — religious schools had done an excellent job in of
teaching children those skills. What the Nazis wanted was a chance to indoctrinate children and,
importantly, to keep children completely separated from all moral and philosophical systems which competed
with Nazism.
L'Eggo My Lego. Some Seattle school
children are being told to be skeptical of private property rights. This lesson is being taught by banning
Legos. A ban was initiated at the Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle. According to an article in
the winter 2006-07 issue of "Rethinking Schools" magazine, the teachers at the private school wanted their
students to learn that private property ownership is evil. According to the article, the students had
been building an elaborate "Legotown," but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its
destruction was an opportunity to explore "the inequities of private ownership."
'You Squander Wealth That's Mine'.
The Go Project NYC is a nonprofit organization in Lower Manhattan that is dedicated to providing academic assistance and social
services to low-income, underperforming elementary school children in the area. When a teacher's aide expressed concern
that a new summer program would include a political message, he was abruptly let go from the program.
Professor Who
Spied For Cuba Gets Prison. A public university professor who spent decades spying for a terrorist
nation while collecting his state paycheck was sentenced to five years in prison for passing on illicit
intelligence to an enemy nation. The teacher often conducted his espionage for the Republic of Cuba,
which has long appeared on the State Department's list of terrorist nations, during regular taxpayer-funded
work hours. His wife, a counselor at the same university, assisted him and was sentenced to three years
in prison.
Conservatives push
to counter liberal professors. A 2005 study by American and Canadian professors indicated that
72 percent of those teaching at U.S. colleges and universities identified themselves as liberal. Only
15 percent called themselves conservative. Several students said professors' liberal views tend to
spill out in classrooms in subtle and overt ways. It can trigger lively debates but also intimidate some
students. Blake Rebling, 19, president of the UA College Republicans, said he typically doesn't challenge
his liberal professors' opinions because they control his grades. "I don't want to risk going to law
school over that," the political science major said.
Conservatives in the Academy: An Endangered
Species. Lyndon Johnson once observed that "If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that
one of them is doing the thinking." Looking at the state of American universities today, perhaps we should
extend President Johnson's logic: If a thousand faculty members agree on everything, are any of them really
thinking? The question is not just rhetorical, because if recent surveys of the professoriate are to be
believed, there is a virtual unanimity of general political outlook among the faculty. This conformity of
opinion has degraded intellectual discourse and impoverished intellectual debate on some of society's most
pressing questions from immigration to abortion to the war in Iraq.
From
the high school frontlines in the culture. Across the nation, public school students are being
indoctrinated in "health" classes and other venues to treat their families with skepticism and to regard
traditional mores as "dysfunctional." Liberals have achieved what the Italian communist Antonio
Gramsci only dreamed about: They have completed "the long march through the institutions" and now
control the commanding heights of the culture.
As a Republican,
I'm on the Fringe. Are university faculties biased toward the left? And is this diminishing
universities' role in American public life? Conservatives have been saying so since William F. Buckley
Jr. wrote "God and Man at Yale" — in 1951. But lately criticism is coming from others — making
universities face some hard questions.
Explosive
facts. Each year about this time, some parents write in to ask for suggestions of things for
their children to read during the summer, in order to counteract the steady diet of liberal-left indoctrination
they have been getting in schools and colleges.
It's
1984 at the University of Delaware. In a tersely worded statement issued on November 1st,
University of Delaware President Patrick Harker brought an end to an Orwellian reeducation program run through
the Office of Residence Life and affecting thousands of students living in residence halls at the University of
Delaware. Published accounts of the residence life education program and publicly available documents
show it to be a systemic model of leftist and politically correct indoctrination, foisted on vulnerable
students by a publicly-funded university.
Are
academic elites communists? While academic leftists, and I'd include their media allies, are
not communists, they are anti-anti-communists. In other words, they have contempt for right-wingers,
conservatives or libertarians who are anti-communists. Why? Academic leftists, and their media
allies, are in agreement with many of the stated goals of communism, such as equal distribution of wealth,
income equality and other goals spelled out in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "Manifesto of the Communist
Party." Leftist elites love the ideas of communism so much that they are either blind to, or tolerant
of, its many shortcomings.
Academedia Bias: Too
often we treat academic and media bias separately when their relationship is much more symbiotic. After all,
not only are media elites trained in academia but they frequently return to school to teach and "give
something back" to the educational system that spawned them.
In Australia...
Conservative
students suffer from 'left bias'. [Dr. Mark Lopez] said he had no doubt that students who presented
conservative arguments or interpretations were at a disadvantage because teachers were more likely to be critical
of their work if they felt the student's argument was "politically incorrect". His concerns are likely to
spark a culture wars debate not seen since 2006 when then education minister Julie Bishop criticised "left-wing
ideologues in state governments", describing some subjects as "straight from Chairman Mao".
Indoctrination starts when
teachers are the students. Beware the words "social justice" and "dispositions"
when used by schools of education and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher
Education (NCATE). These apparently harmless terms lay the groundwork for politicizing
the training of teachers and giving the ed schools an excuse to eliminate conservatives from
their programs. The news this week is that NCATE is backing down a bit from its use of
"dispositions" and "social justice" while denying the political use of these words and calling
its new policy a "clarification."
Don't
think outside the college box. Academia has become a solid bastion of the Left, as demonstrated
by two articles in the latest issue of the scholarly journal Current Review. One article presents a
survey of academic social scientists that reports that 79.6 percent of 1,208 respondents said they voted
mostly Democratic over the last 10 years, with 9.3 percent voting Republican.
A New Low for Higher Education.
A funny thing happened on the way to academic freedom. Some liberal college people don't want
it. If you veer away from liberal orthodoxy, you are not welcomed at commencement.
YAF brings 'leftist' campus
bias to light — again. A campus watchdog group complains that very few conservative speakers
were invited to deliver commencement addresses this year at American colleges and universities. But
that's nothing new, notes the group.
Majoring
in … Hate? "Hate studies," an academic program being developed on campuses nationwide is,
we're told, an intellectual response to racism. Raymond Reyes, director of diversity at Gonzaga
University, is trying to establish an entire major in Hate Studies.
Official Apologizes For Saying Bush Should Be
Shot Between Eyes. State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly apologized Thursday [6/1/2006] for
a "beyond dumb" remark about a fellow Democrat putting "a bullet between the president's eyes." Hevesi
called a mea culpa press conference hours after putting his foot in his mouth at the Queens College commencement.
Conservative speakers
are unwelcome on commencement day. Though resistant to conservative, Republican and even some
moderate speakers, a few highly political campuses seem ready to accept even ax murderers as commencement
speakers, provided that they speak from the left. The late "Tookie" Williams gave two commencement
speeches. He is ineligible for more because he was executed last December for the slaughter of many
innocents in two robberies. Mumia Abu-Jamal has given many commencement speeches, including five in
one year, on tape of course, since he sits on death row for the cold-blooded execution of a cop.
Jodie Foster
unhinged: I am so relieved to discover that movie star Jodie Foster thinks that America
is in worse shape than it was four years ago and that the graduating class of the University of Pennsylvania
needs to march out and do something about it, as in voting for Democrats.
Shedding the intellectual straitjacket:
Academic freedom has often become an opportunity for radical professors to proselytize students. Now the
discussion is turning to academic freedom for students: the opportunity to hear a variety of viewpoints
and present their own, without faculty intimidation.
Burned Out in Birmingham:
Liberal Education and America. Once upon a time, liberal arts colleges acted in loco parentis,
actually caring for and about their students in ways of which their parents could approve. What's more, the
whole notion of liberal education supported that undertaking, for it was understood to prepare students for a life
befitting a free human being, a life of responsible self-government, which, it went without saying, was a life of
virtuous self-restraint.
Restructuring Education For the Global
Village: Academic education has been replaced with indoctrination programs. The process is
designed to change the attitude, values and beliefs of the children — away from traditional American
values of God and Country. Away from the family; away from the American work ethic; away from
competition.
The politics of
disparity: Class warriors incessantly complain of the expanding gap between "rich"
and "poor," by which they mean the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor. In fact,
all boats rise with the tide — the poor are getting richer, too. Unfortunately, too many
Americans believe the lie because of its constant repetition in the media and in our public schools.
Dangerous Professors. Ward Churchill,
Cornel West … we all know the names of some of the radical professors in academia today. But
in his new book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, truth-teller
David Horowitz paints a portrait of some of higher-ed's worst.
Defending Indoctrination: When
David Horowitz published his book The Professors in 2006, he instantly became the target of vitriolic attacks from
tenured radicals and their apologists outside the academy. Among the latter, the most determined was a group
calling itself Free Exchange on Campus. The name was a misnomer. Comprising teachers unions, left-wing
political action groups like the ACLU and the People for American Way, and funded by the Open Society Institute, the
grant-making arm of financier George Soros, Free Exchange was created to to attack Horowitz's most recent book, The
Professors, which called attention to activist professors whose political mission abrogated long-standing principles
of academic scholarship and academic freedom and resulted in an ideological curriculum.
Panel says Churchill should be fired. Ward Churchill,
the professor who called some of the World Trade Center victims "little Eichmanns," should be fired because of
"repeated and deliberate" infractions of scholarship rules, a University of Colorado committee said today [6/13/2006].
Robinson:
CU probably will prevail if Churchill files lawsuit. Churchill's attorney likens his client
to Galileo. More apt comparisons are to erstwhile journalist Jayson Blair or disgraced young novelist
Kaavya Viswanathan … except for the fact that those two plagiarists owned up to what they did. Not
so Ward Churchill.
Indoctrination at the University of
Colorado: In the fields of sociology and anthropology, for example, the ratio of leftwing
professors to conservatives was now approximately thirty-to-one. These two fields themselves had been
largely transformed into exercises in leftwing ideology and bore little resemblance to scholarly inquiry. In
these fields particularly, but in many others that still bore some resemblance to traditional academic pursuits
there was a disturbing absence in university courses of assigned texts that did not validate or amplify with
the professor's ideological point of view.
An anti-communist
reading list: Hardly a day goes by without parents asking me for advice on how
to protect their children from the harmful secular and socialist influences they will encounter
in college. Today, I present a reading list, which should help any high school student
understand the reality of socialism long before setting foot on a college campus.
Communism for
kids: Any parent with a child in a public school has likely discovered that our
education system is little more than a vehicle through which liberals indoctrinate our children
with socialist ideology. If this sounds like a radical assertion, I assure you it is
not. In fact, examples abound indicating just how accurate it is.
Judicial
supremacists back school district over parental control. When former first lady and U.S.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. proclaimed that it takes a village to raise a child, many people
didn't realize that she was enunciating liberal dogma that the government should raise and control
children. This concept fell on fertile soil when it reached activist judges eager to be
anointed as elders of the child-raising village.
The outrages taxpayers and
parents pay for: Repeated surveys report that Democratic professors outnumber Republican
professors by about 10 to 1, but that ratio doesn't begin to reveal the outrageous leftist culture to
which college students are subjected. Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who
hate the United States.
Are Liberals The Worst Bigots of
All? At Seattle's Bellevue Community College, for example, an unnamed teacher changed the
wording of a practice math quiz question to read: "Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of
the roof of the 300-foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second."
'Folk
Marxism' is not exactly Peter, Paul and Mary. Marxists ain't what they used to be. Once
upon a time they would climb on the nearest orange crate and yell, "Workers of the world unite!" Now
they don't even return calls. I phoned the top Marxist at the University of Cincinnati to ask why he
still believes in the most discredited political faith of the 20th century. No response. I
wanted to ask why anyone still teaches and preaches Marxism 20 years after it was hauled away to
the ash heap of history.
Essential Economics Instruction. Too
many kids, particularly those in college, simply share an unquestioning view, similar to the one espoused by
Ralph Nader, believing that regulations and excessive government spending come at no real cost to them.
The presence of die-hard liberals in academia is another hindrance to eliciting the truth as to how the world
really works.
The liberal art of public
education: What does a cool ten grand per student get you nowadays in a public school? If
you happen to have a kid at Poplar Tree Elementary School in Chantilly, Va., there's a good chance it will help
to buy her a lesson in the virtues of communism.
The Left's last paradise.
One study of 1,000 professors finds that Democrats outnumber Republicans at least seven to one in the humanities
and social sciences. That imbalance, more than double what it was three decades ago, is intensifying
because younger professors are more uniformly liberal than the older cohort that is retiring. Another
study, of voter registrations records, including those of professors in engineering and the hard sciences,
found nine Democrats for every Republican at Berkeley and Stanford. Among younger professors, there were
183 Democrats, six Republicans.
That's Just Plain
Snobbery. Liberals control publishing and academia through ideological nepotism. Then
they cast those who are not published or tenured as not up to par in erudition. I've heard it over
and over as an adjunct. A thesis on Paradise Lost and a dissertation on Walker Percy do not fit into such
currently fashionable categories in English departments as "trauma studies," digital technology, video games, or
explorations of the nine different genders put forth by "cutting-edge theorist" Judith Butler.
College Hires Leftist Terrorist
Pardoned by Clinton. Several faculty members at Hamilton College are protesting the school's
decision to hire a visiting professor convicted of possessing explosives as a former leftist radical in
the 1980s.
District sorry for
homeschooler-terrorist link. A school district that participated in a terrorist-attack response
drill apologized for using a scenario in which children were threated by a fictitious radical group that
believes everyone should be homeschooled. The made-up group, called Wackos Against Schools and Education,
was invented by the local government emergency services director.
Why Johnny's sociology professor is a
Marxist. Marxism is an emotional disorder, not a political philosophy. Wealthy people
sometimes accept Marxism, not because it has ever worked, but because they feel guilty about having more than
other people. But, more often, it is accepted by those with less who are angry, usually because they lack
the talent and drive to succeed in a capitalist society.
Why liberals rule academia and
media. A chapter on journalism
[in "The
Secular Revolution," edited by University of North Carolina professor Christian Smith] shows how "key
persons within journalism (especially publishers and editors, and also journalism professionalizers from the
ranks of the universities and the active press) actively sought to minimize and ultimately to undermine traditional
religion."
Liberals Dominate Spring Commencement
Exercises. A survey released today [6/17/2004] by Young America's Foundation
indicates students across the nation overwhelmingly heard from liberal guest speakers during
commencement ceremonies.
My
Life With The Academic Left: Unfortunately, since former 60s protesters have
now become the associate and full professors of the University establishment, they perform
as block captains for correct thinking. They keep a sharp ear out for any grumbles
or dissent. Those whom Horowitz calls the "neo-communists" are pervasive within
the university's structure. Their brand of political philosophy is so all-encompassing
that bringing up politics in class is a given.
NEA Votes on Flood of
NBIs: NEA delegates considered 109 New Business Items (NBIs) during the union's annual
convention July 2-5. For example, among the NBIs that passed, NBI 8 directs the NEA to
"review the research on the environmental impact of chalk dust on children, teachers and support
personnel in the classroom," noting that "breathing chalk dust may be associated with respiratory illnesses."
More about The Teachers' Unions
Academy Under Siege: Does
the mindset of the New World Order run the universities? Interviews
with college students, a University professor, and others reveal a shocking
number of incidents of classroom indoctrination. (Videotape, $15.00)
New
Poll shows the Existence of Political Bias on Ivy League Faculties: David Horowitz,
President of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture today [1/9/2002] released a poll taken on
the beliefs and attitudes of Ivy League professors. Horowitz stated, "For all the
Ivy League's talk of diversity, it is painfully evident from this survey that there is no
real diversity when it comes to the political attitudes and social values of Ivy League
professors. Not only is there an alarming uniformity among liberal arts professors at
our elite universities, but this uniformity bears the clear stamp of the Democratic Party and
the political left."
"World Anthem" Strikes
Discord: The dust is still settling in Fort Collins, Colorado, where Poudre High School's
senior class council decided to play the World Anthem rather than the national anthem at
its May 24 graduation.
Book:
The
Professors: Bestselling author David Horowitz reveals a shocking and perverse culture of
academics who are poisoning the minds of today's college students.
Book review:
Lefty Profs Exposed.
[David] Horowitz's 101 profiles remain mostly free of editorializing. Instead, the author lets the
professors do the talking, and they proceed to condemn themselves with their own words, actions, and
dubious scholarship.
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