The above-linked article makes reference to a number of scandalous attempts by government-school "educators," college professors and administrators to curb or punish opinions that differ from theirs -- theirs being uniformly Leftist and anti-American.
We've heard a lot about this, these past few years. Perhaps the earliest and most compendious treatment was Dinesh D'Souza's book Illiberal Education, though Roger Kimball's fine Tenured Radicals must not be neglected. The point for today is that this is not a dead-letter phenomenon. It's intensifying as we speak, along with all the other stridencies and power-grabs of the Left. It's only reasonable that it should be thus: the Left is growing quite desperate.
The tactic must not be allowed to succeed. If you can help the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or the Institute for Justice, which also pursues this sort of villainy, please do so. After all, as the Left knows full well, "the children are our future."
Thursday, August 05, 2004
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To add to your thoughts: Thomas Sowell wrote "Inside American Education" in 1992! There Sowell documents what D'Souza describes--taken to the next level (if that is insanely possible!).
City Journal is by far the most on-the-ball with this (with Horowitz filling the gap for Higher Ed).
Reading Sowell's book is devastating. If you're brave enough (and don't have any sharp objects in reach), Heather MacDonald's articles provide the backdrop. All of her essays may be found here, but for this context you can focus on the education subject. "An F for Hip-Hop 101" and "Why Johnny’s Teacher Can’t Teach" are not to be missed.
I think the bigger point is that the first thing the Left had to do was breakdown education--they had to get the great Tombs of the Great/Good books off the shelves. Once they'd successfully accomplished that and removed the great buffer of the wisdom of the past, the rest was easy.
As my dear husband says at times like these, "after a while it is impossible to blame this on incompetence and it is only reasonable to suspect sabotage."
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