Lessons in Disaster

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Horowitz and Jacob Laksin, senior editor for Frontpagemag.com, recently co-authored One Party Classroom, which examines current scholarly indoctrination at major universities. It is the follow up to Horowitz’s Indoctrination U, in which he exposed many universities for violating academic standards. It reads like his previous work, The Professors, as it surveys 150 courses that follow a general rule: teach students what to think, not how to think.

Horowitz states that, “the roots of the present situation lie in the political history of the 1960s and its aftermath.” Many political activist students filtered into graduate school and are now running most of the departments throughout the country. Activist students at UC Santa Cruz were awarded Ph.D.’s for non-academic work, including Angela Davis, who was on the FBI’s most wanted list at one time, and Black Panther leader and felon, Huey Newton. This kind of activity led to a shifting viewpoint on education that the book exposes. Universities now embrace radical viewpoints in certain areas of study such as women’s studies, geography, African American studies, and sociology. Many of these courses are described as part of “a political movement.”

The authors understand that all professors are going to have a bias of some kind. The problem is that they let this bias run their classroom, which leads to a lack of professionalism on many campuses. When controversial subjects are only taught from one perspective, it no longer promotes independent and critical thinking.

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Though a high school teacher and NOT a college professor, I try really hard to mask my opinion on certain subjects. To me, it's more important that my students are presented the facts and are persuaded to come to their own opinions.

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Annie Oakley wrote:

Though a high school teacher and NOT a college professor, I try really hard to mask my opinion on certain subjects. To me, it's more important that my students are presented the facts and are persuaded to come to their own opinions.

Judge, can I copy your link to "another" site?

You betcha!