From the Writings of David Horowitz: March 5, 2010
How bad is the indoctrination process in American colleges?
I had occasion to see for myself an answer to this question when I recently visited the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This is a state school with 20,000 students, and while I was there I audited an hour-and-a-half lecture about the Warren Court’s landmark decisions on civil liberties by a well-known and highly respected political scientist named Sheldon Goldman, a nationally recognized expert in the field.
There are no open conservatives on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts and none that the conservative students who were hosting me could identify. My student hosts were political science majors and the absence of conservative professors was a real problem for them given the extreme and abusive nature of many of their professors. One professor gave an exam, for example, that consisted of a speech by President Reagan. The exam question was: Explain why Reagan is wrong. Another professor was a militant leftist who required a paper on the Vietnam War. To avoid the political minefield which confronted him, a student wrote a paper comparing military strategies for the war. The professor rejected the paper with the comment: “We shouldn’t have been there in the first place.”
When I entered Goldman’s classroom I saw that half of my student hosts were taking his course, a relief they told me later from the harassment they experience in other political science courses. Goldman is regarded by these conservative students as the “best” and “fairest” professor on the UMass faculty, someone who every now and then would vent a “liberal” sentiment or prejudice but whose lectures were relatively free from bias and whose classroom behavior was respectful towards them. Political Science departments in my experience are more academic and less politicized than other departments such as Anthropology, Sociology and the various inter-disciplinary fields (“Peace Studies,” “Cultural Studies”) that tenured radicals have invented to establish their ideological claims.
– How Bad is the Indoctrination in Our Colleges?
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Does anyone remember Adolph Hitler? He indoctrinated his Hitler Youth. Sound familiar? If America doesn't wake up soon we will all become SUBJECTS and no longer CITIZENS of America. This is where the Democrats and Obama are taking this country. George Soros and his ilk are controlling the left radicals of the 60 like the Clintons and Michelle & Barack Obama. We must purge the whole Democratic party from Politcs or we all will surely suffer the consequences.
your wrong we will still be citizens…….citizens of the world as the one world government unfolds with the promise of peace for all, justice for all. of course it will be a lie but people will accept it because it is what they want to hear. check JVI ministries or read revelation the last book of the bible. the one world gov is foretold there. look at hi-tech devices we are moving to a cashless society, japan and england parts of asia are using phones to do banking, bill paying, even pay for food at stores and subway transportation. no card or cash needed they have special security. they use fingerprints or your retina, bar codes that you pass over readers. it's so easy.
The communist quickly killed millions of people after the US withdrew from Southeast Asia. That was nothing in comparison to the tens of millions who died in Russia and China. The Elite seem to consider this a small matter. Ruthlessness is a predictable characteristic of Marxist doctrine. As the professor would say :" Americans shouldn't have been concerned in the first place."
Indoctrination causes people to have the inability to think about what they're being spoonfed. Without that
ability there is no room for debate, because there is no capcacity for it.
I recently challenged a law professor at Washington & Lee University, Timothy Jost, about his leftward writings about health care reform…I thanked him for exposing his institution as a place I no longer had to consider for my honor student. He replied by telling me that I would surely find a place where the faculty thought like me, implying my child's worldview would thus be narrow and suboptimal. That's fine with me. I hope my child, and more children, think like me, respect the Constitution and hold intellectual integrity, personal responsibility and liberty in high regard.
To read an account of David Horowitz's visit to UMass go here:
http://tommydevine.blogspot.com/2010/02/judgement...