One-Party Classroom

One-Party Classroom
In pursuit of the truth – cinops be gone – Thursday, April 23, 2009

As a retired public school teacher this book hits the nail on the head. It will help us understand the alien teach-mindset that most Americans are not even aware of.
“David Horowitz has single-handedly exposed the intellectual corruption that exists with the class-rooms of American Colleges. Like all forms of corruption, indoctrination flourishes when kept in the dark. Horowitz turns on the bright lights to expose what has become profoundly wrong with our colleges and universities. We are all in his debt,” Ward Connerly, former regent, University of California.

David Horowitz and coauthor Jacob Laksin take us inside 12 major universities where radical agendas have been institutionalized and scholarly standard abandoned. The schools … are an all-too-representative sampling of American higher education today.
Horowitz and Laksin have conducted the first comprehensive, in-depth, multiyear investigation into what is being taught in colleges and universities across the country – public to private from large state schools to elite Ivy League institutions…. The extreme ideological cant that today’s students are being fed includes:

1.) Promoting Marxist approaches as keys to understanding human societies – with no mention of the bloody legacy of these doctrines and total collapse in the real world of the societies they created.

2.) Instilling the idea that racism, brutally enforced by a “white male patriarchy” to oppress people of color and other marginalized groups, has been the organizing principle of American society throughout its history and into the present.

3.) Requiring students to believe that gender is not a biological characteristic but a socially created aspect of human behavior designed by men to oppress women.

4.) Persuading students that America and Israel are “imperialistic” and “racist” states and that the latter has no more right to exist than the South African regime in the days of apartheid.

In page after shocking page, Horowitz and Laksin demonstrate that America’s colleges and universities are platforms for a virulent orthodoxy that threatens academic ideals and academic freedom. In place of scholarship and the dispassionate pursuit of the truth that have long been the hallmarks of higher learning, the new militancy embraces activist zealotry and ideological fervor.

In disturbingly large segments of today’s universities, students are no longer taught how to think but are told what to think.

All of the above from the book cover of One-Party Classroom – “How Radical Professors at America’s Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy,” by David Horowitz and Jacob Laskin, Crown Forum, New York, 2009
George H. Kubeck