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Maxstake
March 10th, 2009, 4:14 pm
Attention all Moms, Dad's, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Brother's, Sister's, anyone that really gives a damn what our children are being taught and how they are brainwashed. Questions:

Why was the biggest voting Block for Obama those under 40? ? ?

Do you suppose that parental neglect of what they were taught had anything to do with it? ? ?

and LAST "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT??".


One-Party Classroom
By David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Are American college students being indoctrinated in their classrooms? Some recent studies say no. Closed Minds? is a survey of 1270 professors conducted by authors associated with the Brookings Institution. The survey asked these academics what their political persuasion was and whether they let politics influence their classroom presentations. The overwhelming majority of respondents said they were on the political left, but ninety-five percent denied that they used their classrooms to influence their students politically. This encouraged the Brookings experts to conclude "The idea that the elite universities are rife with leftist politics, or any politics for that matter, is at odds with the evidence."


We beg to differ. In researching our new book One-Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy, we didn't ask professors what they thought of themselves. Instead, we looked at the courses they actually teach -- courses like Community Studies 100P at the University of California Santa Cruz, which is described in the university catalogue in these words: "The goal of this seminar is to learn how to organize a revolution. We will learn what communities past and present have done and are doing to resist, challenge and overcome systems of power including (but not limited to) global capitalism, state oppression and racism."


This is clearly a training course in radical politics - an exercise in indoctrination, not a scholarly inquiry designed to examine its subject matter in a critical, academic manner. It violates the "standing orders" of the regents of the university which state that "Misuse of the classroom by, for example, allowing it to be used for political indoctrination.constitutes misuse of the university as an institution." Unfortunately, there is no university authority willing to challenge its radical faculty, and the University of California is no exception.

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sgdp
March 10th, 2009, 4:34 pm
I definitely want to pick up that book.

chris13
March 10th, 2009, 4:43 pm
That's the biggest reason I got my kids OUT of government schools!

Army of 1
March 10th, 2009, 4:46 pm
I think it has less to do with college and more to do with lack of experience.
I think many still doubt themsleves and feel they need help. I also think they fail to see the big picture in most things. they look at short term what will help me(tax cuts for me not rich people) they do not understand the philosophy of trickle down or getting out of the way of people that can help others help themselves. or that it does more than a government quick fix, which will be gone long before a newly made job would be.
Young people in general are naive. In a sense book smart -life lesson dumb. I don't know that college influences that any more than upbringing or family.
overall the problem with academia is that you are insulated from the real world and never really have to test all those great theories...

flashycopy
March 10th, 2009, 6:33 pm
This is simply an author trying to use fear to sell a book.When searching for truth their are two paths one path is to find the truth and let it change your thinking and the other path is to find the truth and alter it to fit your thinking.When reality conflicts with strongly held belief reality always looses out.

BryanC
March 10th, 2009, 9:02 pm
I go to one of the universities that inevitably comes up in these liberal college/indoctrination books. However, I have not had a teacher that is overtly conservative or liberal- maybe there are some, I can't speak for every professor. Nor have I ever been ridiculed in a political discussion if I disagree with others. I'm not really sure where all the indoctrination talk comes from, but that's just me.

Maxstake
March 10th, 2009, 9:06 pm
If your interested let us know which University and we can foundout for you.

AmericanSpirit
March 11th, 2009, 1:18 pm
Indoctrination of a professor's political persuasion was VERY common in my university.

One professor I knew didn't bother to teach the course...he spent the time talking about how racist and bad conservatives are. Really he did. No lie.

jackson Mill
March 11th, 2009, 7:03 pm
This book is a load or crap. I can't wait to read it, then burn it.

Political standing often depends on the discipline; at the college i attend, the business professors tend to lean conservative, while the professors in the humanities tend to lean liberal- go figure. But the courses the book seems to be sighting as "dangerous, brain washing, radicalism" are courses that are A) largely electives, not required to obtain a degree B) as such, chosen by the student to be taken (bare in mind that classes don't just "happen." they must be proposed to a board and reach a certain number of interested, enrolled students before it begins).

However, not only do many colleges offer classes that tend to appeal to conservatives, but some college require that student take these course. I attend a college briefly that required two semesters of bible study; I left that college promptly. Maybe it would be good if students attend a college that suited their political leaning....you know, individual responsibility. Are not you all always shouting about that?

while my college is liberal, our library has a copy of "Liberty and Tyranny" in the "nice reads" section.

Maxstake
March 11th, 2009, 7:16 pm
This book is a load or crap. I can't wait to read it, then burn it.

Political standing often depends on the discipline; at the college i attend, the business professors tend to lean conservative, while the professors in the humanities tend to lean liberal- go figure. But the courses the book seems to be sighting as "dangerous, brain washing, radicalism" are courses that are A) largely electives, not required to obtain a degree B) as such, chosen by the student to be taken (bare in mind that classes don't just "happen." they must be proposed to a board and reach a certain number of interested, enrolled students before it begins).

However, not only do many colleges offer classes that tend to appeal to conservatives, but some college require that student take these course. I attend a college briefly that required two semesters of bible study; I left that college promptly. Maybe it would be good if students attend a college that suited their political leaning....you know, individual responsibility. Are not you all always shouting about that?

while my college is liberal, our library has a copy of "Liberty and Tyranny" in the "nice reads" section.

Sir,

I would bet that they don't have any of the following books in "their nice reads section". In case you are interested I have provided source and price.


"Stealth JIHAD" concerns the MUslim invasion of America, "Londonistan" deals with the Muslims hoard primarily in England, but gives us a good picture of what is happening in America and Europe.

The others deal with the "Secular Progressive Communist Democrats" beginning in the early 1920's, finally Obama Nation - about our Marxist Imam "p"resident to be.

Stealth JIHAD by Robert Spencer - Amazon.com - from $18.45 used;

Londonistan by Melanie Phillips - Amazon.com - from $10.17 used;

The red Web by Blair Coan-albris.com - from $6.28 used;

Blacklisted by history by H. Stanton Evans - Amizon.com - from $12.99 used;

Shadow Warriors by Kenneth R. Timmerman - Amizon.com - from $10.17 used;

Party of Defeat by Horowitz and Johnson - Amizon.com from $14.79 used;

and books by Lt.Col Robert Patterson - all Amizon.com Reckless Disregard from $5.47 used, Dereliction of Duty from $12.97 used, and War Crimes from $14.79 used;

Obama Nation by Jerome R. Corsi -Amazon.com - from $11.56 used.

jackson Mill
March 11th, 2009, 7:27 pm
I ran a quick seach in the library's catalog at the college I attend. They had the following available:

Londonistan by Melanie Phillips

Blacklisted by history by H. Stanton Evans

Shadow Warriors by Kenneth R. Timmerman

Party of Defeat by Horowitz and Johnson

Obama Nation by Jerome R. Corsi

Not in the "nice reads," but available all the same.

Maxstake
March 11th, 2009, 7:32 pm
Read them and then lets talk.

jackson Mill
March 11th, 2009, 7:38 pm
Read them and then lets talk.

I should read more literature that represents a view contrary to my own...I do make efforts to hear the other side of the argument. Why else would I be on this forum? But my work load may prevent it at the moment. However, do you normally take reading lists from liberals and actually read the suggested text?

Maxstake
March 11th, 2009, 7:56 pm
I should read more literature that represents a view contrary to my own...I do make efforts to hear the other side of the argument. Why else would I be on this forum? But my work load may prevent it at the moment. However, do you normally take reading lists from liberals and actually read the suggested text?

I can and do, I admit it is a struggle, but how else can you learn about your adversaries? ? Give me a brief (?) list, I'll read your offers and you read mine - then lets talk.