Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1816, “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.”

As anyone who has been to college or a university knows, leftwing ideas and perspectives dominate every part of the campus. Higher education used to be about open debate, critical thinking, and honest inquiry. Now the campus has become about conformity and indoctrination. Educational institutions proudly accept diversity of every kind except one: diversity of thought.

In the past, students would study the philosophical foundations of Western civilization, Latin and Greek, and the classics. Debates from all sides would be presented without attempting to silence opposing views. Sadly, all that has changed over the last roughly 50 years. Many students now graduate radicalized with an illiberal education.

Today they study “Queer Rhetorics”, “Feminist Studies”, “Gender and Sexuality Issues in Media”, “Sex and Gender in Society “, “Social Protest, Conflict and Change”, “Modern Marxist Theory”, “Wealth Distribution and Poverty”, and many other postmodern, politically correct classes - designed to foster a sense of guilt and hatred for Western civilization, particularly America. Feelings are emphasized over reason, creativity over knowledge, and socialism over capitalism.

Young people need to understand that they will not receive a balanced perspective in a college or university. Groupthink is strongly emphasized in schools, and being resistant to liberal dogma will result in ridicule and/or academic punishment. Having received only narrow or misleading information, students cannot make well-informed decisions, especially concerning politics.

This may explain, in part, as to why students who adopt liberal ideology are generally not very good at explaining why they believe it. Their ideas are never challenged in school, and thus they never have to defend it. Think about a student who makes a politically correct statement in a classroom, echoing leftwing dogma. The teacher and other students will simply nod their heads in agreement. But if a student were to give a conservative interpretation on some issue, everyone would jump all over that student and ask questions in an interrogation-like manner.

Much like fascists, the Left cannot tolerate the idea of opposition, and thus try to silence their opponents. Conservative speakers are rarely welcomed on campuses across the nation, and are often violently protested and shut down. The irony of the liberals’ fascistic actions is lost on them as they march in solidarity against freedom of speech. The Left knows its positions are largely irrational and/or historically discredited, and so they use every tactic they can to suppress their critics. If modern liberal ideology made sense, they’d welcome debate on campuses, but the fact that they don’t is quite telling.

Schools, like the media and courts, are considered vehicles for social change. Liberals use schools to destroy value systems they don’t agree with, and replace them with rigid leftwing orthodoxy friendly to the state.

This is a big part of why Obama and the political left are pushing that everyone go to college, and even have government (taxpayers) pay for it. The more impressionable young minds that are systematically indoctrinated, the more liberal Democrat voters there will be (or is it just a coincidence that so many young people graduate supporting liberal ideology?) In essence, this is no different than a re-education camp, but we pay for it in more ways than one. This is a prime reason why parents should thoroughly prepare their children with the knowledge and reasoning skills needed to resist their propagandizing professors.

Thankfully there are some organizations trying to fight back and raise awareness of the dangers students will face on campuses today. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is one such group. “The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America’s colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience-the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. FIRE’s core mission is to protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means to preserve them.”

The Collegiate Network “for more than 25 years…has supported independent college newspapers that serve to focus public awareness on the politicization of American college and university classrooms, curricula, student life, and the resulting decline of educational standards.”

National Association of Scholars (NAS) “is an independent membership association of academics working to foster intellectual freedom and to sustain the tradition of reasoned scholarship and civil debate in America’s colleges and universities.”

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) “works with college and university trustees to ensure responsible management of higher education resources, end grade inflation, establish a solid core curriculum, and restore intellectual diversity on campus.”

Students for Academic Freedom is “a clearing house and communications center for a national coalition of student organizations whose goal is to end the political abuse of the university and to restore integrity to the academic mission as a disinterested pursuit of knowledge.”

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