How Radical Professors Indoctrinate Students - David Horowitz (6 of 8)

A professors job is not to tell students what to think; it is to help them to think carefully, critically, and for themselves. There is a legitimate place for the catechist, the preacher, the social activist, and the community organizer; but that place is not the university classroom. Professors who seek to indoctrinate their students violate a sacred trust. They should be forcefully challenged and publicly held to account. In One-Party Classroom, David Horowitz does just that. The book should provoke a discussion of the ethics of classroom instruction that is long overdue.
—Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program
in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University

Definitive proof that, whether they succeed or not, thousands of professors go to work every day with the intention of indoctrinating their students in their personal political prejudices.
—Candace de Russy, former trustee, State University of New York

One-Party Classroom shows how far American universities have drifted from academic principles. The politicized courses described here are indeed among the worst cases. What is truly shocking is the unwillingness of university authorities to do anything about them.
—Stephen H. Balch, founder and president, National Association of Scholars

Reveals how political activists masquerading as academics dominate our liberal arts colleges. Regents and trustees need to become engaged in this important battle to restore academic rigor, standards, and accountability to our institutions of higher learning.
—Tom Lucero, regent, University of Colorado

There is not a university leader in this country who would not be better for confronting the well-reported case studies in David Horowitzs book.
—Frederick Mohs, former trustee, University of Wisconsin

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[basscataz]

i am 27 and i know how to talk to those my age who are lost. but it is a lonely and dark task

[migkillertwo]

The only counter-point to all this obvious indoctrination (I see it in my liberal arts classes, it happens) I can see would be that Students are "indoctrinated" in neoliberalism because Economics professors are overwhelmingly liberal (I include Keynesian economics under "liberal"). Anyone in a microeconomics course will see that free markets create better standards of living than centrally planned, socialist economies.

[AkaiTsukiShimitsu]

@migkillertwo Thumbs up for free market? :3

[tyewalkerfm1]

@Tsnore depends on what side you're on....

[Tsnore]

What's the difference between a rebellion and a revolution?

[Kurtlane]

So the company gathers all pilots and stewards that would be on board and tells them, "You are all converting to Islam! If you don't, you'll be laid off!"

And they all did.

Freedom of religion, my ass! Americans licking those Arab behinds.

It is so sad to see how in America, like everywhere else, totalitarianism is about to triumph because too many people are too scared.

[Kurtlane]

Let me give you just one example. (from Steven Emerson's book "The American House of Saud"):

When a new airport was about to open in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which would service pilgrims going to Mecca, the Saudis offered an American airline company an exclusive contract for the entire Western hemisphere. But there was a condition: everyone on board had to be a Muslim.

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

So if I want to look at truly brave people, I either watch something about American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, or about students in Iran standing up against the regime. But inside the coutry people are absolute scarity cats. This is how leftist garbage, postmodernism, multiculturalism, and eventually Islamism has crept in; not because people approved it, but because people were afraid to speak out.

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

Unfortunately, Americans are not that individualist.

Most happily surrender their individuality to join the crowd of people patting each other on the shoulder, saying, "You're one of us. You're a good guy, not like those..."

Especially on campuses.

And Americans are such scarity cats. So scared of being called a racist or an islamophobe, of losing face, career, reputation.

(cont.)