Indoctrination against liberty. Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are accused of setting the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon, attended the University of Massachusetts. Maybe they hated our nation before college, but if you want lessons on hating America, college attendance might be a good start. Let's look ... MORE
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Walter E Williams: Hating America
Indoctrination against liberty. Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are accused of setting the bombs that exploded at the Boston Marathon, attended the University of Massachusetts. Maybe they hated our nation before college, but if you want lessons on hating America, college attendance might be a good start. Let's look ... MOREMichael J. Hurd: Religion, Education And The State
Is religion 'free' to spend tax dollars? Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood, Mississippi is under fire for allegedly forcing its students to attend and listen to Christian lectures during three assemblies held in April alone. Worse yet, students were barred from leaving and teachers blocked the exits to prevent any of them from doing so. A lawsuit ... MOREThomas Sowell: Is Thinking Obsolete?
Indoctrination with unexamined assumptions. While it is not possible to answer all the e-mails and letters from readers, many are thought-provoking, whether those thoughts are positive or negative. An e-mail from one young man simply asked for the sources of some facts about gun control that were mentioned in a recent column. It ... MOREBrian Phillips: Abolish Public Schools
Make a move toward educational excellence. In recent years, it has become increasingly popular to argue that
government should be operated more like a business. As an example, a manifesto written by sixteen public school executives explains how to fix public schools: Let’s stop ignoring basic economic principles of supply and demand ... MOREJane S. Shaw: The 'P.C.' Dumbing Down Of U.S. Schools
Campuses succumb to groupthink. U.S. colleges and universities are drowning in a sea of “political correctness,” and many of higher education’s “best and brightest” don’t recognize the danger. Indeed, speech codes and groupthink are so prevalent on American campuses that we now take them for granted. Instead of meekly accepting the ... MOREDeportation Case Has Chilling Effect On Homeschooling
by Bryana Johnson. In 1938, the practice of homeschooling was outlawed in Germany by Adolf Hitler and the infamous Third Reich. It was a rough period in German history, as thousands of young people were being pried from their parents’ direction and authority and drafted into the Hitler Youth program, where they were supposed to be ... MOREGene Beato: Government-Issued Comics For Propaganda
How government turned comic books into propaganda. Comic books, psychiatrist Fredric Wertham argued
in a 1953 Ladies Home Journal article that preceded his
1954 best-seller, Seduction of the Innocent, were
instruction manuals for everything from shoplifting in department
stores to tween lust-murder. If one were to set out how to teach children ... MOREThomas Sowell - The Role Of 'Educators'
Indoctrination skills on parade. Many years ago, as a young man, I read a very interesting book about
the rise of the Communists to power in China. In the last chapter, the
author tried to explain why and how this had happened. Among the factors he cited were the country's educators. That struck
me as odd, and not very plausible, at the time. ... MORE
Thomas DiLorenzo: The Rationally Misinformed Voter
A populace designed to serve. In the sub-discipline of economics known as public choice, an important concept is the theory of "rational ignorance." First articulated by political scientist Anthony Downs in the 1950s, and expanded upon by economist Gordon Tullock and others, the theory of rational ignorance holds that it is perfectly rational for ... MOREDaren Jonescu: The Case Against Public Education
Salvaging a civilization. If public education is allowed to survive, all efforts to resuscitate the inert husk of modern civilization will fail. It is time to unravel the most wasteful and destructive entitlement program of all. Cancer cells do not divide into healthy cells. A corrupted, power-intoxicated political class will not willingly raise a freedom-loving, ... MORE
Walter E Williams - Academic Dishonesy
Preparation for failure? Many of the nation's colleges and universities have become cesspools of indoctrination, intolerance, academic dishonesty and an "enlightened" form of racism. This is a decades-old trend. In a 1991 speech, Yale President Benno Schmidt warned: "The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption ... MORERobby Soave: Campaign For Obama, Get College Credit
Your tax dollars at work. A public university in Colorado may have violated state law by offering students course credit if they volunteered with President Obama’s re-election campaign. A blog post on the Adams State University website billed the opportunity as a “12 week long organizing internship for the Obama Campaign.” Both the blog ... MOREEmily O'Neill: Public School Is Prison For Patriots
Public education teaches not to question authority. When I was twelve, my mom took me out of public school and homeschooled me. I chose my own reading list and learned all I could about politics, law, and history. Eventually my mom didn’t have to call meetings at the kitchen table to check on my progress. I wanted to learn — and I wanted to arrive at my ... MOREThomas Sowell: Academic Hyprocrisy
Time for academics to start pointing the finger inward. It is fascinating to see people accusing others of things that they themselves are doing, especially when their own sins are worse. Academics love to say that businesses are not paying enough to people who work for them. But where in business are there people who are paid absolutely nothing for ... MOREMike Silva: PC Police Disarm Old Houston Uniform
Nauseating MLB political correctness at it again. Yesterday I wrote at Sports Media Watchdog about the public overreaction to the ESPN “Chink in the Armor” story; today I came across a story about MLB messing with tradition in the name of political correctness. Last September, the League prevented the Mets from wearing hats honoring first ... MOREThomas Sowell: Different Decisions
Two unrelated news stories on the same day show the contrast between government decisions and private decisions. Under the headline "Foreclosed Homes Sell at Big Discounts," USA Today reported that banks were selling the homes they foreclosed on, at discounts of 38 percent in Tennessee to 41 percent in Illinois and Ohio. Banks in general try to get rid of the homes they ... MOREVIDEO: Toxic Classroom - Labor Studies
A small sample of the taxpayer-funded poison dispensed at American universities.
John Bennett: Open Mind Or Empty Head?
There is a difference between an open mind and an empty head. But not everyone agrees. At Harambee elementary in Maplewood Minnesota, kindergarteners are starting their indoctrination early. The Star Tribune reports at that this school, "A 'community cultures specialist' tours classes to make sure students are working across racial lines and learning about multiple ... MORE
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