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To: aaronopine

Marxists planned to and gradually succeeded in infiltrating opinion-making institutions of society with stinkin thinkin masked by politically correct facades. What we didn’t fully realize is that the soldiers of Marxism were busy moving through the academic ranks and creating politically motivated curricula not only in the soft sciences, like sociology, psychology, history, political science, history, library science and journalism, but even in the hard sciences.

Is is too late to deprogram our children and homeschool our grandchildren in the most important subjects they’ll ever learn: logic, statistics, critical thinking skills, and awareness and recognition of the brainwashing methods of propagandists?


3 posted on 12/24/2009 9:02:31 AM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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To: Seeing More Clearly Now

I think you are absolutely correct in that we must instruct our children and grandchildren in the laws of logic, statistics, and critical thinking. It is never too late, but it must be done in a sufficiently large number to affect change. Our children are educated in (actually very good) public schools in a more conservative city. However, we carefully track what they are learning and challenge them to think logically. We explain to them why certain theories are flawed, show them the alternatives, and encourage them to challenge even our own positions so we can all learn more together.

I also point out to them that the weakest ideas are often identifiable because their champions will not allow any debate.


4 posted on 12/24/2009 10:00:18 AM PST by aaronopine
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