The Other Side of the Story
De-Programming Students
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/02/deprogramming_students.html
“Letters from parents often complain of a sense of futility in trying to argue with their own children, who have been fed a steady diet of the politically correct vision of the world, from elementary school to the university…”
“Yet trying to undo the propaganda that passes for education at too many schools and colleges, one issue at a time, may not always be the best strategy. There are too many issues on which the politically correct party line is considered to be the only way to look at things.”
“Given the wide range of issues on which students are indoctrinated, instead of being educated, trying to undo all of that would require a whole shelf full of books– and somehow getting the students to read them all.”
“Another approach might be to respond to the dogmatic certainty of some young person, perhaps your own offspring, by asking: ‘Have you ever read a single book on the other side of that issue?’”
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