Millennials deserve better than college indoctrination, By Rick Manning, 11/27/15
America has been experiencing a
contrast in cultures that have been created by our institutions.
On one hand, we witness some college
students protesting over whether Thomas Jefferson’s statue has a place on the
college campus that he attended.
On the other, the men and women of
our armed forces continually demonstrate a toughness and valor that is
unmatched anywhere in the world.
As college protesters complain about
the need for safe spaces where they can be sheltered from the diversity of
ideas that makes the world go round, our young men and women in the military
put their lives in harm’s way to create safe spaces for people who otherwise
would be physically destroyed for their beliefs.
One group riots over a justified
police shooting as the net effect of the grievance and victim culture that has
been nurtured, and the rapid response ability to spread misinformation fomented
by the media. The other sees a leader face losing his career because he stopped
a local Afghan police chief from raping a young boy.
The problems of Ferguson, William
and Mary, the University of Missouri and elsewhere that our nation is
witnessing is not about the millennials, a group that is often unfairly derided
as being unfocused, lazy and entitled.
Our volunteer military’s performance
in high stakes, high stress environments proves that there is nothing wrong
with young America.
The problem is one of training. Liberal
arts colleges no longer train young people to think critically about problems,
but instead are encouraged to embrace a victim culture that blames the
capitalist system and white males in particular as oppressors to be reviled.
The attack on Jefferson’s statue at William and Mary — whose natural rights
ethos in the Declaration of
Independence of “all men are created
equal” unquestionably inspired abolitionists a generation later — by a small
group of students shows the massive holes in their education and the
manipulation of their world view.
When the statue of a man who is
emblematic of individual freedom is treated with the contempt that a statue of
Vladimir Lenin received after the fall of the Soviet Union, then something is
clearly wrong with the molding of these young people’s world view.
The next election will help
determine whether the federal Department of Education will continue to push
suicidal self-loathing through approved curricula, but this is not just a
federal government problem, it is a state and local one.
Twenty four states have Republican
Governors and state legislatures with two states — Alaska and Louisiana with
very conservative Democrats either sitting or incoming to go with Republican
legislatures. There is simply no excuse for these states with single party
control to fail to address the destruction of the millennial mind by a
university system dominated by far left ideologues determined to undermine
America’s greatness.
America is witnessing the fruits of
our current education system on campuses across the nation, it is time for
conservative elected leaders to begin the process of pulling out the weeds that
have overrun what was the greatest education system the world has known. It
won’t be easy, but the future demands it.
Rick Manning is the President of
Americans for Limited Government.
http://netrightdaily.com/2015/11/millennials-deserve-better-than-college-indoctrination/
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