Posted on 09/24/2023 5:58:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Progressive ideology permeates American education. Such is the “rapid growth” of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs in higher education and the demand for assent to their core tenets that, according to The New York Times, “[n]early half the large universities in America require that job applicants write” statements that affirm belief in and demonstrate devotion to race-conscious measures that ensure equality of outcome based on skin color and ethnic heritage.
To bolster its hegemony, universities punish dissent from progressive orthodoxy. To question on campus whether America really is divided into an oppressor and an oppressed class; to doubt that discrimination based on race should be employed to ensure proportional representation in education, business, and government of historically discriminated against groups; indeed, to express reservations about the notion that individuals should be evaluated based on the racial and ethnic groups to which they belong instead of on their character and accomplishments – exposes one to scorn, censure, ostracism, and, as the Times reports, denial of employment.
Indoctrination has usurped education to the profound detriment of students and the nation. The problem’s extent and seriousness complicate reform.
The urgent need to recover liberal education – an education that prepares students for the rights and responsibilities of freedom by transmitting essential knowledge in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences and by cultivating the ability to think for oneself – confronts two major temptations. One is to counter indoctrination in ideas one opposes with indoctrination in ideas one favors. The other is to overlook, in the name of open-mindedness and free speech, the essential content of liberal education in America.
These temptations were on display recently in the salutary exchange in the Wall Street Journal between columnist William Galston and activist and bestselling author of “America’s Cultural Revolution” Christopher Rufo....
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
The Florida Stop Woke Act sure is upsetting the left.
DEI = Divisiveness, Elitism and Indoctrination
When educators teach dogma and conspiracy theories as facts then corrective action needs to be taken. There is no social benefit to misleading vulnerable and naïve students. If intellectuals want to argue these things among themselves, fine.
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