[SLB]

This is long, but worth the read.

[maica]

Powerful, eloquent and very depressing.

[FlingWingFlyer]

That’s the problem with our colleges and universities these days. You are expected and, in some cases, required to think a certain way. That’s the way it is in most Communist countries. If you don’t go along with the agenda, you are an outcast. A freak. Someone who needs to be disposed of.

[ryan71]

I don’t think our universities will ever recover.

[bgill]

Where does such thinking in university students come from? The answer is that it comes from the university itself.

Perhaps to an extent. However, but this ingrained single-minded thinking comes from like-thinking parents who send their kids to school in that particular environment.

[Never on my watch]

Well worth the read.

Colleges and Universities are now (and have been) a cauldron of toxicity. Combine ignorant, celeb-worshiping Utopian kids with ivory tower self-important elitists and you create useful idiots willing to surrender our freedom.

[Lucky Dog]

In by-gone years, a liberal arts education consisted of studying the trifecta: logic, grammar, and rhetoric (math was correctly considered a part of logic). To master these topics, one studies the works of the giants of philosophy who, quite literally, created and developed these topics.

Logic required one critically examine the premises of an argument with the strength of their connections to any posed conclusion... by its very nature the core of "critical thought."

Grammar was taught as not just the "rules" of constructing sentences, but as proper way of expressing concepts and thoughts. Without a command of language, the manipulation of abstract symbols (words) to arrive at correct conclusions is difficult, if not impossible.

Rhetoric was studied, both, as way creating emotionally (if, perhaps not logically) convincing arguments and the examination of and avoidance of being trapped into unduly accepting emotionally convincing arguments.

These are the topics and skills that still be at the core of education, not "indoctrination."

[ikka]

I don’t believe I could function in such an environment... the urge to just go “BAAA-BAAA” and bleat like a sheep at such people would be too strong.

[giobruno]

Ah, that was the university experience I recall quite vividly; it was a daily nuthouse of misplaced sentimentality, bad ideas, childishness, and race-class-gender, race-class-gender, race-class-gender. All those idiots running around pretending to be oppressed between beer bongs, basketball games, and 4 hour workdays. Sigh.

The author has is exactly right, especially the part about having to read the most odious and indefensible books to become a “better teacher.” Remember, a whole bunch of professors of education (or some equally specious degree)supposedly read those books thoroughly and then actually recommended them as essential texts to give to other teachers as a criteria for moving along the academic ladder.

[70th Division]

This guy is one in a million. I got his back. WHAT? Teaching a kid to think? What a novel Idea.

[RobinOfKingston]

Large corporations prefer to use H-1B visas to hire foreign engineers and computer technicians. H-1B workers increased threefold during the Clinton administration, ...

Those are the first couple lines from the article just under this one on FR's index page, "How Young Engineers and our Economy are Betrayed."

What universities in this country have done is nothing short of criminal. Indoctrinate, rather than educate.

[denydenydeny]

“Well Doug, you have to respect her feelings.”.....“A lot of us feel the same way she does,”

A university that teaches that "feelings" are just as relevant as facts teaches nothing.

[TMA62]

If one cannot state an opinion that is right of center without retribution on our college campuses, there is NO academic freedom there. Pure and simple.

Groupthink. Groupspeak. Orwell.

[DouglasKC]

This was a good article that highlights what we’re up against. Thanks for posting it.

[Carry_Okie]

Without providing evidence, he [the author -CO] insists on the existence of a grand conspiracy, specifically that all society is a victim of oppression and conspiracy:

There ample evidence of a communist conspiracy existing from at least the early 19th Century generated by some of the wealthiest families in the world, of which the author is a witless dupe.

[Tax-chick]

Excellent article.

[AppyPappy]

I find this is true of most Democrats. The next time a Democrat says “Bush lied”, ask them to tell you the exact lie he told. They can’t. Many times, their response will be “Everyone knows he lied” and they will think that finishes the argument.

[AppyPappy]

BTW if you are not attending college or working in one, your opinion is based on someone else’s opinion.

[Spok]

In the first couple of chapters of Albert Speer’s book “Inside the Third Reich”, Speer talks about the mood and attitudes on college campuses in Germany when Hitler was coming to power. The simliarities are stunning.

[metmom]

Since many of you homeschoolers will be sending your kids off to college, I thought that this might of of interest to you.

[RWB Patriot]

“I loved education, which is why I spent as little time as possible in school...the only thing you have to do to get kids educated is abolish the school system.”

Karl Hess, former speechwriter for Barry Goldwater, who dropped out of school at age fifteen.

http://www.robertringer.com/bullying.html

Mostly about school violence, but he does address the fact that schools don’t allow free thinking in some parts.