Systematic Practice of Political Indoctrination at Universities and Colleges

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Homeschool is the only option left to the rational, freedom-loving American. The left and their subversive partners have destroyed our universities and colleges. Every parent with a child in school knows how awful the leftwing indoctrination is.

The war on education commenced with the student rebellion of 1964. Brick by brick, piece by piece, the great American education system was dismantled, destroyed. This did not happen organically. This was a deliberate, systematic attack on America and individualism.

“Teaching as a Subversive Activity”: The Theory of Political Indoctrination PJM

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Last weekend I visited the U.C. Berkeley campus and on a whim attended a lecture with the provocative title “Teaching as a Subversive Activity — Revisited.”


Because this was a presentation aimed at education insiders only, the lecturer, retired professor H. Douglas Brown from S.F. State, seemed perfectly willing to let the cat out of the bag about political indoctrination on college campuses. Fortunately, I had my trusty camera with me, so I was able not only to snap a few pictures but also record several key portions of his speech, which I found so eye-opening that I felt the general public deserved to hear it as well.

The timing couldn’t have been better: A devastating new report issued by the National Association of Scholars had just been issued a few days beforehand, which documented with exquisite and irrefutable detail the extreme liberal bias at the University of California. However, the main problem with the NAS report (which you can download in full here if you’re interested) is that it’s too overwhelming and too technical to deliver the kind of emotional impact needed to sway public opinion. To drive home the point in a more personal way, the NAS report needed an introductory companion anecdote of a professor frankly confessing the rationale behind what is essentially the “theory of indoctrination.” As if on cue, Professor Brown stepped into that role, unwitting though he may have been.

Let it be noted that Professor H. Douglas Brown is no wild-eyed extremist; in fact, he’s rather bland and respectable and not the most thrilling of speakers, as you will soon hear. But that’s what made his presentation so disturbing: radical and self-admittedly “subversive” attitudes that affect the future of society are discussed with matter-of-fact nonchalance. The main drawback of Professor Brown’s verbal style (at least from my point of view) is that he often resorts to the academics’ tried-and-true escape hatch, which is to rephrase statements as questions, so as to have plausible deniability if later confronted. Thus, for example, instead of just flatly saying something like “We should indoctrinate students with leftist ideologies,” he asks “Should we indoctrinate students with leftist ideologies?” and only after five minutes of talking in circles eventually concludes “Yes.”

The title of Brown’s lecture is taken from an influential and groundbreaking book published in 1969. Written by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner, the manifesto Teaching as a Subversive Activity did not actually advocate political indoctrination in the classroom, but rather it was one of the first books to completely deconstruct the concept of education itself, and the “subversion” it advocated was much deeper and more structural: Get rid of tests, the notions of “the right answer” and “the wrong answer,” the memorization of facts, the ascendency of teachers, and so forth; instead, make education an ungraded process of learning how to think and how to criticize, respecting the opinions and ideas of the students themselves. Of course, this being 1969, it was presumed that the establishment status quo with its facts and rules was rigid and conservative, while the students were radical and transgressive, so all one had to do to foment a revolution was simply to put the kids in charge of their own education, and they’ll naturally overthrow society without even being specifically instructed to do so. (If you’re curious, the entire text of Teaching as a Subversive Activity is now available for free online as a PDF document.)

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UPDATE: An Atlas reader writes me:

Dear Pamela,
I read the article, "Systemic Practice of Political Indoctrination at Universities and Colleges".  My daughter was gifted in Nevada schools until the 6th grade she was in gifted classes. For some strange reason the schools figure the kids are no longer gifted after that and do not provide advanced classes.  I was on the fence about homeschooling her until I read John Taylor Gatto's books, "A Different Kind of Teacher" and "Dumbing Us Down".  Mr. Gatto was teacher of the year in New York and his books disclosed the true agenda of public schooling which started back in the industrial age. 

Once I saw the real agenda I took her out of the public schools and homeschooled her. She entered college at 15, had a two year degree by the time she was 18, was Phi Theta Kappa, Dean's list, and Honor's list.

Then came the horror of the indoctrinations in University. She has had to protect herself many times from the Socialists, Marxist, and Leftists teachers trying to convert her. 

Our education system has been taken over by the worse of this society along with more and more Muslim influence. I urge all parents to read Gatto's books and see if you can afford to continue to leave your children in public schools.

Respectfully,

CS Goodwin.

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Frederick Rogers
Frederick Rogers
11 years ago

This problem goes right through the educational system, but culminates in university with the “coupe de grace”. In the USA, I think it is a very severe problem, but in Canada, we’ve caught up to the trend and our schooling is now reduced to a nonsensical, distorted propaganda machine that does not promote critical thinking but mindlessness. A former conservative premier is used as a punching bag and the children are taught to hate him, not for any reason of course, but only because we “just know” that he was evil and his former policies are the cause of all our problems. Al Gores film, and those of David Suzuki, a major Canadian enviromentalist are presented as required viewing in order to stir up trouble and outrage among our impressionable young minds. On top of this, we get all the ridiculous policies like “look say” and the “new math” in order to make sure there is no critical thought remaining that might dare to challenge all this BS. Of course everyone passes and the marks given out are absurdly high as compared to the past, so the impression is there is nothing to achieve in life, were all the same anyway, everyone gets a trophy. Once the teachers themselves are products of this same system, then the deed is done. Everyone is reduced to babbling lunacy.

cedarbark
cedarbark
11 years ago

My daughter experienced this. She signed up for a Humanities 101 class and the first day she was given an assignment “How can college education address social injustice and racism?” — which has nothing to do with humanities.
She also took an anthropology class which taught evolution and mocked Christianity.
Her political science class freshman year she got a “C” because her views differed from her psychopathic leftie teacher’s, and she even tried to temper her answers to please her teacher, but the conservative opinion was actively punished.

FreedomFillies
FreedomFillies
11 years ago

Pamela,upsetting to see you and your work demonized in the MSM.
Thank you so much for sharing this information – highly relevant & timely.
This university has become an international Saudi and Middle East Student go to. There were no Burkas’ in this small city until a few years ago, not that there weren’t any Muslims, there were. There has been a Mosque there for decades.
The university now offers credits for being a global minded and globally competent student.
The Saudi Education Centre thinks it has a right to control Muslim and infidel thought at the university.
This very recent story is an example of many that you have posted that are occurring in North American Universities. Again – many thanks for your valuable contributions and straight forwardness.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/04/12/bc-niqab-bra-photo.html
The student campus paper on the issue – note the comments by the students.
http://theomega.ca/2012/04/03/controversial-art-creates-cultural-conversation/

infidel4life
infidel4life
11 years ago

Ayn Rand warned us about indoctrination in Universities decades ago. Now it is far worse than it was then. The unholy Leftist/Islamic alliance is churning out mindless haters of all things Judeo-Christian, American, Capitalist, Conservative, and Caucasian. This generation of brainwashed youth will not even notice (might even rejoice) when Freedom is dead and buried.

Ronald Morgenthaler
Ronald Morgenthaler
11 years ago

This article has been eye opening for me, and the comments as well. I didn’t know it had gotten this bad.

Vera
Vera
11 years ago
Swemson
Swemson
11 years ago

There’s a law in the UK prohibiting political indoctrination of school children. I don’t know if it affects higher education or not (it probably doesn’t) but an interesting footnote to the law was that it was successfully used in a lawsuit filed to stop the showing of Al Gore’s science fiction thriller / horror movie “An Inconvenient Truth” to British Schoolchildren.
The case was settled when the Judge, having agreed that the plaintiff’s proved that all 9 out the the 9 major points made in the film and argued at trial were either false or gross exaggerations of the truth, ordered that the film not be shown unless a disclaimer was first read to the students to the effect that the conclusions drawn by the film were INCONSISTENT with mainstream scientific views on the subject of climate change.
We need to such a law here. I’ve already suggested same to my representatives & senators. Please help spread the idea around by suggesting it to yours.
fs

cedarbark
cedarbark
11 years ago

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/169950/roger-ailes-tells-journalism-students-i-think-you-ought-to-change-your-major/
“one of the things I learned the hard way in university is that there is no room for dissent; with institutional power on their side, with numbers on their side, with the fact you need them more than they need you on their side….all of these things conspire to make young kids end up becoming leftist mush. Post-secondary education is one of only two industries I can think of (the other is mainstream journalism) where the consumer is treated with absolute contempt; they’re doing YOU a favour by indoctrinating you. I guess the saturation point for me came back around 1997 or 1998 when a feminazi professor (white female) was bashing universities for not hiring enough (white) females – and then I happened to look around and discovered that most of the new hires in the social sciences were women – a disproportionate number of whom were white women. That same year, I listened to a lesbian professor rail against the engineering department for not hiring enough female faculty – at the same time as she was an adjunct professor in the feminist studies department (which, in 1998, had not a single male professor or a single woman of colour on its roster). The hypocrisy of these people is boundless. “

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