Education

The current explosion of misinformation makes it hard to find the truth. If a lie is repeated often enough, people start to believe it. If it’s continually in the media and the classroom, you and your children may be deceived.

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“If this list is accurate — and that may be confirmed by visiting a college bookstore and seeing what books are assigned by any given instructor — most American parents and/or their child are going into debt in order to support an institution that for four years, during the most impressionable years of a person’s life, instills values that are the opposite of those of their parents. And that is intentional. As Woodrow Wilson, progressive president of Princeton University before becoming president of the United States, said in a speech in 1914, ‘I have often said that the use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.’” (2/29/2012)

http://townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/2012/02/29/what_kids_now_learn_in_college/page/full/

“Is it any wonder, poll after poll demonstrates students are alienated from their own culture? Clearly many of those who will eventually assume leadership positions are no longer learning about their civilization's triumphs and its singular role in transforming the human condition. According to a National Association of Scholars report issued in 2011, ‘The Vanishing West: 1964-2010,’ only two percent of colleges offer western civilization as a course requirement. Remarkably, western civilization is rarely even required for history majors. By contrast, most institutions from 1964 through the 1970s did have this requirement. In 1987 Jesse Jackson led Stanford protestors in a chant of ‘hey hey, ho ho, Western Culture's got to go.’ The purpose of this demonstration was to eliminate a course on Western Civilization, and, mirabile dictu, Jackson and his claque were successful. From the triumphs of the West -- such as individual rights, the rule of law, minority rights, free markets, the search for truth, the separation of church and state --emerged a form of curriculum apologetics for racism, imperialism, sexism, colonialism. The course that stood as the foundation stone in the curriculum was shattered by an ideological bandwagon. In the absence of this foundation, the curriculum began spinning out of control into a phantasmagoria of offerings, many narrow in scope, many trivial in nature and many adhering to notions of political correctness.” (12/19/11)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48215

“Liberal elites have dominated most university faculties for years, but it seems they've become bolder, more radical and more militant. It is not their ideas I fear, because Christianity and conservatism stand up to truth challenges. It is the moral preening, the politicization of academics, the peer pressure, the revisionist distortions and the potential discrimination against dissenters … Are you sure, for example, that your kids have the discernment to recognize the disinformation that Christianity and conservatism are hardhearted, selfish, hateful, bigoted and intellectually backward and the strength to oppose it? Apart from your kids' presumed respect for you, do they have the intellectual ammunition and the spiritual armor to resist the pressure to conform?” (4/2/11)

http://townhall.com/columnists/davidlimbaugh/2011/04/01/equipping_children_with_spiritual_and_political_armor/page/full/

"Kids Aren't Cars" is a new short film series set for release February 1st. Using examples from the Midwest, it documents the impact organized labor has had on the American education system, creating a one-size-fits-all assembly line model that leaves students behind and treats teachers equally, stifling innovation and improvement. See the trailer here. Our government education system has been spending more and more each year, yet the results have been the same. While unions demand higher spending - which of course ends up in the pockets of their members - money is not fixing the problem. Those that have been in the trenches gave shocking interviews - stories of money grabs by adults while children are left behind.” (1/17/11)

http://townhall.com/columnists/KyleOlson/2011/01/17/new_film_documents_unions_destruction_of_public_education

“The battle for America’s heart and soul, as was the case with 1930s Germany, has not only been fought in the political sphere, but also in the realm of education. Without a true education emphasizing liberty with responsibility, is it any wonder we see crowds mindlessly chanting ‘Yes we can!’ in our midst? It’s not surprising that we see our youth swallowing the deception of anthropogenic global warming, even after this was exposed as a fraud by ClimateGate … Relative to education, the issue, as Lutzer implies in his book, is that ‘… the same values that destroyed (Nazi) Germany are being taught in many of our centers of learning today.’  And what are those values? Lutzer notes the seven point leftist educational goal is to inculcate the following falsehoods: 1) There is no right or wrong, only conditioned responses; 2) The collective good is more important than the individual; 3) Consensus is more important than principle; 4) Flexibility is more important than accomplishment; 5) Nothing is permanent except change; 6) All ethics are situational as there are no moral absolutes; and 7) There are no perpetrators … The truth is that radical leftists require your children, almost as the ancient Amorites required children to sacrifice to Molech. Lutzer quotes Hitler as saying, ‘This new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing … but they must be consciously shaped … according to the principles of the ideology of National Socialism.’” (12/27/10)

http://www.offthegridnews.com/2010/12/27/hijacking-the-next-generation-lessons-from-nazi-germany/

“American politicians have tried to fix our nation’s chronic academic woes with more taxpayer money – but those efforts have failed … Politicians have also tried adding new layers of bureaucracy … Why should we try universal choice? Because to be perfectly blunt we’ve tried everything else – and nothing has worked. Also, aside from the perpetual demonization of choice by those who have a vested financial interest in preserving our nation’s failed status quo – why shouldn’t we try it? Needless to say the stakes are high. For example, a recent study conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Stanford University researchers found that if America could boost its average PISA scores by 25 points over the next 20 years, it would result in $41 trillion worth of economic benefits for the generation of Americans born in 2010.” (12/16/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/HowardRich/2010/12/16/real_academic_accountability_requires_real_choices/page/full/

“Throughout most of The Beautiful Tree Tooley shows rather than tells … ‘In these genuine markets, educational entrepreneurs respond to parental needs and requirements … Their quality is higher than that of government schools provided for the poor.’ And his findings are not merely anecdotal. Governmental officials showed little interest in his findings, but a Templeton Foundation grant allowed him to create research teams that tested 24,000 fourth-graders from a variety of schools in India, China, Nigeria, and Ghana. The result: Children in private schools scored 75 percent better than comparable students in government schools ... The title of Tooley's book comes from his sense that parents don't need government officials to tell them what to do: A beautiful tree can grow without supervision from ‘development experts’ who believe that poor children will be educated only if governments, with funding from rich nations, establish free, universal public schooling. The better way: Poor parents pay teachers directly. Voucher plans ‘if done in the right way’ can help … The essential strategy is this: If students don't learn, teachers don't eat.” (11/18/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/MarvinOlasky/2010/11/18/schools_that_serve/page/full/

“But a large measure of responsibility falls on our shoulders as parents.  When even good students text during class, talk out loud, or speak disrespectfully to teachers, it’s a failure of parenting more than a failure of the schools. It’s up to us to hold our children to a higher standard, one that shows respect in dress, tone of voice, words, and actions.  And it all starts at home … A teacher friend of mine reminded me that parents should guide their ‘good kids’ to make a difference in creating a classroom culture of respect. Some of our children are gifted leaders. Their leadership is meant not only for the sports field, student government, or clubs but also for the classroom, supporting a culture that takes learning seriously … Similarly, a classroom leader who chooses to text in class or check sports scores on their cell phone erodes the climate of respect within the classroom. Alternatively, a well-timed encouragement for others to ‘Listen!’ can make a difference.  Remind your children that when they step up to the plate and demonstrate respect for authority, it sets the tone for others to follow.” (10/19/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/RebeccaHagelin/2010/10/19/disrespect_creates_classroom_disasters/page/full/

“Are you sure, for example, that your kids have the discernment to recognize the disinformation that Christianity and conservatism are hardhearted, selfish, hateful, bigoted and intellectually backward and the strength to oppose it? Apart from your kids' presumed respect for you, do they have the intellectual ammunition and the spiritual armor to resist the pressure to conform … Christian parents should not assume their kids are equipped to filter out the false claims they will likely encounter.” (8/16/10)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38559

“These legislative goals are only a small part of the mischief endorsed at the NEA's annual convention. The NEA convention passed many pro-homosexual, pro-feminist, pro-abortion and anti-parent resolutions. The NEA's left-wing bias is also obvious in its resolutions calling for public school curricula to include multiculturism, globalism, environmentalism, diversity, AIDS, sexual orientation ... gun control … When will parents wake up to whom is running the public schools?” (8/5/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2010/08/03/the_neas_latest_shenanigans/page/full

“Jesus was not nice to the Pharisees. In fact, He had this to say to them: ‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. Even so you outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.’ (Matthew 23: 27-28). David Wheaton, author of University of Destruction, correctly points out that there were two principal reasons why Jesus reserved his harshest judgment for the Pharisees. The first was that they were proud. The second was that they were liars, or false teachers. It has long been understood that academics are a proud bunch. But few realize just how dishonest academics have become ... For ages, professors have been guilty of advancing ideas before they were supported by evidence. Today, they are guilty of the far greater misdeed of continuing to advance ideas long after they have been refuted by evidence.” (7/22/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2010/07/22/professors_and_pharisees/page/full

“To achieve even these percentages, however, the discrimination against white and Asian applicants, because of the color of their skin and where their ancestors came from, is astonishing … ‘To have the same chance of gaining admission as a black student with a SAT score of 1100, a Hispanic student otherwise equally matched in background characteristics would have to have 1230, a white student a 1410, and an Asian student a 1550’ … That such bigotry is pervasive in 2010 at institutions that preen about how progressive they are is disgusting." (7/20/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/PatBuchanan/2010/07/20/bias_and_bigotry_in_academia/page/full

“Is totalitarianism the natural end of all forms of government, or are men capable of ruling themselves? Without the foundation of Locke, do American children have the philosophical foundation necessary to understand what is truly evil about Stalin and Marx and conversely, what is good and unique about America? I am concerned when young students can’t identify the source of the ideas upon which their nation was founded, but can easily identify men whose political beliefs are in direct opposition to those ideas … It was the revolutionary ideas of natural rights and government limited to the occupation of securing those rights that influenced America’s founding fathers. Locke is quoted and paraphrased throughout much of America’s founding documents … Between Karl Marx and John Locke, who is more important to our national political identity? So why are our children hanging posters of Marx on their classroom walls instead of Locke?” (7/12/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/JosephCPhillips/2010/07/12/who_is_john_locke/page/full

“It’s no wonder that Obama’s propaganda efforts use electronic mediums, pledges, and songs. Such strategies also fit in with the emotional manipulation that goes on in the classroom, where attitude is valued over knowledge ... Today’s students are indoctrinated through illiteracy and incomplete history. They are rarely given the challenging works like Frederick Douglass’s to read in the original. They are rarely given the full picture about our history and our Judeo-Christian heritage, so needed to place Douglass in context, as someone capable of engaging in conversation involving the great ideas of the West. Instead, he is used to illustrate their Marxist notions of ‘social justice,’ and in an oversimplified cartoonish manner. Barack Obama, former professor of “critical race theory” (Marxism with a new spin), has surrounded himself with similar anti-intellectual educators: his partner in the crime of failing schools in Chicago, Bill Ayers; ‘safe schools czar’ Kevin Jennings; and his campaign education advisor Linda Darling-Hammond.” (7/5/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/MaryGrabar/2010/07/04/what_to_the_slave_is_the_fourth_of_july/page/full

“To Obama and the elites around him, the America our 18th Century forbearers created started evil, got worse, and now is such an awful and reprehensible institution that it needs to be completely transformed into something radically different. To them, America is to be thoroughly condemned, then obliterated and subsumed into the one-world government that Obama will eventually rule … Thanks to the monumental efforts of the Marxists, Socialists and Communists currently in charge of America, that freedom is being incrementally taken from us. There has never been a time as serious in the preservation of our freedom and of our nation, as we see America being ripped apart and an entirely new nation based on rule put in its place … If we are to stop the decline of our once great nation, we must begin by recapturing our schools from those who wish to rule us. For more than two generations we have allowed our childrens’ minds to be poisoned by increasingly radical leftist lies about this great country. It is really very simple: we replace these lies with truth. Truth - devoid of political agenda, political correctness, multiculturalism, Orwell-speak, all of which were created to deflect from the truth. Truth - the clear, simple truth about the United States of America, which will enable our children to understand that our country does not need to be fundamentally transformed, the nation that our founders gave us needs to be preserved.” (1/12/10)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=35127

“Professors who adopt this philosophy are dangerous because they are so dangerously arrogant. They deny that anything has any objective meaning because they want to be the ones assigning meaning to all things ... The recent growth of acceptance of postmodernism on the American campus is bad for society and bad for the student who aspires to function in a real world governed by real rules enforced by real consequences. It is only good for the dishonest liberal who wishes to inflict intentional harm and claim it was accidental.” (1/4/10)

http://townhall.com/columnists/MikeAdams/2010/01/04/oh_lord,_please_don%E2%80%99t_let_me_be_misunderstood

“But never did I expect to hear him dodge children on the main message of Christmas and then teach them a revised version. Here's the actual transcript … So let me see whether I have this straight. Obama's Christmas theology and mission is thus: Jesus is Gandhi. The wise men were non-greedy corporate executives on a baby tour ... God help us.” (12/29/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2009/12/29/obamas_most_important_message

“The two most important questions for society, according to the Greek philosopher Plato, are these: What will we teach our children? And who will teach them? Left-wing celebrities have teamed up with one of America's most radical historians to take control of the classroom in the name of ‘social justice.’ Parents, beware: This Hollywood-backed Marxist education project may be coming to a school near you.” (12/11/09)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34798

“Some people are surprised that the administration is hardly transparent and, in fact, downright intolerant of dissent. Critics are slurred as racists and Nazis … The president tells the nation that his wonderful programs are met with distortion and right-wing lies, and that the time for talking is over — no more partisan, divisive bickering in endless debate.” (9/29/09)

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTA4OWRmZTM3MmQwNzJlZWMyMDc4MTY1ZGE5NWMzODM=

“What's to keep those who sing worship songs to him from thinking they can do the same exact things in their own spheres of influence?” (9/27/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2009/09/27/why_obama_sycophants_are_so_compromised

“A cadre of like-minded educators and national service administrators across the country share the same core commitment to transforming themselves from imparters of knowledge to transformers of society. The "change" agenda trains students to think only about what they should do for Obama -- and rarely to contemplate how his powers and ambitions should be limited and restrained.” (9/5/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/09/04/why_parents_dont_trust_the_educator-in-chief_and_his_comrades

“But the White House announcement that President Obama will give a speech to schoolchildren next Tuesday (and the Department of Education’s plan to ensure children “learn” from it) goes beyond Orwellian: it’s practically Soviet ... What Obama says during the speech itself matters less than the fact that --  in earlier speeches as well as this one -- the Obama administration is targeting school students to listen and learn political lessons. (9/5/09)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33413

“We pledge our allegiance to the flag and to the republic for which it stands, never to the president. He is our servant, not the other way around.” (9/5/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/09/05/controlling_childrens_minds

“The National Education Association … emphasis on advocacy for homosexuals …” (8/4/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2009/08/04/nea_goes_all-out_for_same-sex_marriage

“Their goal is to earn more money for shaping your kids ‘values, fears, beliefs, and behaviors.’” (7/29/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/AshleyHerzog/2009/07/29/the_democrats_want_your_kids

“As a result of my research and personal experience, I can now say without reservation that the lack of ideological diversity on college campuses is a dangerous threat to free and open discourse in academia.” (7/13/09)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0713/p09s02-coop.html

“Admittedly, President Obama has had a rather ugly run of horrible nominees: finance people who cheated on taxes, Cabinet members who slandered our service men and women at Gitmo without checking (and upon checking and admitting that Gitmo is an above average facility still not apologizing or correcting the matter), and most recently a judicial nominee who evidently has been saying for over a decade that Latina women are morally superior to all white males. But the nomination of Kevin Jennings breaks new territory, one that endangers the health, happiness, and welfare of your child, and every other child in the public education system … This early attempt to push through an advocate of sexual deviancy should be swatted away, with fervor, for the safety of our children.” (6/7/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/KevinMcCullough/2009/06/07/why_obamas_elementary_queering_must_be_stopped

“So its cancellation is not a result of costing too much, because it's half the price of public schooling. And it's not because of inferior quality, because the kids enrolled in the program were scoring higher than students in regular schools. There's only one reason Congress canceled it, and it comes down to this: federal control and educational indoctrination.” (4/30/09)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=31638

“In "The Marketing of Evil", Kupelian painstakingly documents the process and practices the Left has mastered to dupe good Americans into carrying the poisonous waters of socialism, immorality and...just plain evil.” (3/31/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/RebeccaHagelin/2009/03/31/social_justice_and_hatred

“If one wants to understand what left-wing dominance in university social sciences departments produces, one merely had to meet this young woman.” (1/26/09)

http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2009/01/27/california_college_student_terror_is_the_new_communism

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." (12/3/08)

http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/12/03/ignorance_reigns_supreme

Education vs. Indoctrination (12/31/08)

http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2008/12/31/teaching_economics

Suppression of Intelligence (Posted 5/8/08)

http://www.thenewamerican.com/node/7935 (article)

Selective Free Speech (Posted 9/26/07)

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22596 (article)

Academic Freedom

http://www.psaf.org (website)

David Horowitz Freedom Center

http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org (website)