What Kids Now Learn in College

[Geee]

National Review:

As high school seniors throughout America will be receiving acceptance letters to colleges within the next month, it would be nice for parents to meditate on what they are getting for the $20–$50,000 they will pay each year.

The United States is no better than any other country, and in many areas worse than many. On the world stage, America is an imperialist country, and domestically it mistreats its minorities and neglects its poor, while discriminating against non-whites.

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There is no better and no worse in literature and the arts. The reason universities in the past taught Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Bach rather than, let us say, Guatemalan poets, Sri Lankan musicians, and Native American storytellers was “Eurocentrism.”

 

God is at best a non-issue, and at worst, a foolish and dangerous belief.

 

 

Christianity is largely a history of inquisitions, crusades, oppression, and anti-intellectualism. Islam, on the other hand, is “a religion of peace.” Therefore, criticism of Christianity is enlightened, while criticism of Islam is Islamophobia.

 

Israel is a racist state, morally no different from apartheid South Africa.

 

 

Big government is the only humane way to govern a country.

 

The South votes Republican because it is still racist and the Republican party caters to racists.

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I dare say this is more typical of public universities either in CA or the northeast.

 

I seriously doubt small to mid-sized christain universities (ie: Taylor Univ. in Upland IN, or Geneva College in Beaver Falls PA) ascribe to these ....uh...."theories". Further, it is doubfull that large private colleges ascribe to them either (Notre Dame, Texan Christian, Cornell (NY)).

 

What is truly frightening is that one - standing back and observing - can see a very dangerous trend developing here....I think?

 

The "theories" described in the article are taught as the truth....as are the "counter theories" taught in the many other colleges sited.

 

This leads to cadres of "believers" on both sides with no "bridges" between! Are we developing a nation of college grads who truly and educatedly believe that "I'm right and you're wrong"???

 

What a country we're building, hey??

[righteousmomma]

Unfortunately what Prager describes is happening and has been developing for the last 100 plus years. It began with John Dewey 's philosophy of learning and the tendrils spread. A secular, humanistic, scientific world view perspective today colors all our thinking and reactions - whether in society, the culture or the individual.

 

Political correctness reigns above logic, common sense and reason.

 

Critical thinking by the vast majority is an art they never learned.