Steven P. BarrettMAMA'S - DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE PC'd!
August 12th 2008 16:51
By Steven Barrett
PARENTS OF COLLEGE-BOUND KIDS: DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR KIDS HAVE TO READ WHEN THEY START CLASSES THIS FALL?
Sure, textbooks for English Lit, (or early American Lit); American history, a basic survey book; something on the basics of Western Philosophy, and a basic primer dealing with sociology.
Is there anything more?
Perhaps not for all students. After all, some kids will be matriculating at colleges that are anything but "politically correct." (Those are the safe ones.) But for those of you lucky ones whose kids have chosen the run of the mill politically correct colleges and universities, you might want to review that list again. You'll be SURprised at what you have to add and subtract, and I'm not addressing basic arithmetic books.
(They wouldn't have helped me anyway. Something happened during my gestation and this son of a much beleagured mom who could never grasp why people needed calculators when they could use their heads, somehow became (in today's ever-sensitive PC-speak) extremely MATH-CHALLENGED.) I've yet to figure out exactly how compounded interest really works to undo any "wealth" to my name, but it doesn't take a Ph.D in economics to know it hurts like hell when it comes in the form of a credit card bill instead of a savings account statement.
Even Marxists can grasp this daily fact of life, especially if they live over here and teach freely whatever it is they want to mess up yet another generation of kids with this outdated and horribly boring mush.
Which, of course, brings me back to my original topic of buying the RIGHT books, and I don't mean conservative right, so as to please their professors and know what he or she's trying to pull over their eyes and pour into their heads. (Lucky for me, I'd already attended a high school chock full of pinkish-leaning college-bound professors' kids heading off to college. Since that was during the late Sixties, well, at least by the time I got to Biscayne, I'd been somewhat innoculated.
Thanks to a considerable plowing under of a once fertile field of genuine academic variety under the guise of political correctness -- and I'm talking about 36 years worth of this plowing -- a lot of kids just don't know what's in store for them. Perhaps not their parents since they, too, lost out on getting a much fuller perspective on what's available to read and learn from.
Ashley Herzog, a rising conservative Ohio State senior and author (already!) offers parents a quick "what not to take or buy" guide in today's column for Townhall.com, "College Classes for Conservatives to Avoid." Folks, you honestly can't expect your kids to come out with just a brainwashing: fleecing you/them for buying the prof's or the prof's friends and favorite authors' books is part of the deal. Unlike the temples of the Lord, the temples of academia require that you pay into the collection plates before any fannies are plunked in the "pews."
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The latter contains a brief bio of Miss Herzog's accomplishments thus far. It's quite impressive. By the way, I used the word "Miss" as a tribute, not a cut.
Some of the courses she wrote about, especially "Sociology of the Sex Industry," (the one about what I like to call the "adult entertainment sexual exploitation industrial complex") ought to be taken only after getting a letter from a qualified psychiatrist, because it will depress even the most optimistic among us.
As a Civil War buff, I couldn't help both laughing and shaking my head upon reading this aptly critical gem:
Many years ago there was a "student rebellion" at UMass/Amherst and not all the gripes the kids (well, my generational gray-haired "kids") offered up were off the wall. One of them dealt with the racket professors were running by forcing the students to buy textbooks authored by guess who -- and a lot of these books weren't the relatively inexpensive paperbacks written by political authors like Zinn. Oh, you know what I mean by now, the big suckers costing over a hundred bucks for starters.
Sure, it was a racket, but I'm sure a lot of ("like-minded") profs got around it through a circle of "friendly recommendations" and these helped each other still make up those "lost royalties." But if they couldn't pull this off, I'm sure a lot of those would-be revolutionary future profs are kicking themselves now.
If tenure's not enough and knowing that their books are still picked up by book clubs, etc., and put on mandatory reading/reserve lists and bought by college libraries -- then nothing would satiate these brainwashing "incorrectly politically" correct campus capitalists."
PARENTS OF COLLEGE-BOUND KIDS: DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR KIDS HAVE TO READ WHEN THEY START CLASSES THIS FALL?
Sure, textbooks for English Lit, (or early American Lit); American history, a basic survey book; something on the basics of Western Philosophy, and a basic primer dealing with sociology.
Is there anything more?
Perhaps not for all students. After all, some kids will be matriculating at colleges that are anything but "politically correct." (Those are the safe ones.) But for those of you lucky ones whose kids have chosen the run of the mill politically correct colleges and universities, you might want to review that list again. You'll be SURprised at what you have to add and subtract, and I'm not addressing basic arithmetic books.
(They wouldn't have helped me anyway. Something happened during my gestation and this son of a much beleagured mom who could never grasp why people needed calculators when they could use their heads, somehow became (in today's ever-sensitive PC-speak) extremely MATH-CHALLENGED.) I've yet to figure out exactly how compounded interest really works to undo any "wealth" to my name, but it doesn't take a Ph.D in economics to know it hurts like hell when it comes in the form of a credit card bill instead of a savings account statement.
Even Marxists can grasp this daily fact of life, especially if they live over here and teach freely whatever it is they want to mess up yet another generation of kids with this outdated and horribly boring mush.
Which, of course, brings me back to my original topic of buying the RIGHT books, and I don't mean conservative right, so as to please their professors and know what he or she's trying to pull over their eyes and pour into their heads. (Lucky for me, I'd already attended a high school chock full of pinkish-leaning college-bound professors' kids heading off to college. Since that was during the late Sixties, well, at least by the time I got to Biscayne, I'd been somewhat innoculated.
Brainwashing
Thanks to a considerable plowing under of a once fertile field of genuine academic variety under the guise of political correctness -- and I'm talking about 36 years worth of this plowing -- a lot of kids just don't know what's in store for them. Perhaps not their parents since they, too, lost out on getting a much fuller perspective on what's available to read and learn from.
Ashley Herzog, a rising conservative Ohio State senior and author (already!) offers parents a quick "what not to take or buy" guide in today's column for Townhall.com, "College Classes for Conservatives to Avoid." Folks, you honestly can't expect your kids to come out with just a brainwashing: fleecing you/them for buying the prof's or the prof's friends and favorite authors' books is part of the deal. Unlike the temples of the Lord, the temples of academia require that you pay into the collection plates before any fannies are plunked in the "pews."
Really Long Link
Really Long Link
The latter contains a brief bio of Miss Herzog's accomplishments thus far. It's quite impressive. By the way, I used the word "Miss" as a tribute, not a cut.
Some of the courses she wrote about, especially "Sociology of the Sex Industry," (the one about what I like to call the "adult entertainment sexual exploitation industrial complex") ought to be taken only after getting a letter from a qualified psychiatrist, because it will depress even the most optimistic among us.
As a Civil War buff, I couldn't help both laughing and shaking my head upon reading this aptly critical gem:
... Avoid classes that teach American history not as it actually happened, but as the professor thinks it should have happened. Check out the required texts before registering. If the professor uses books like Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States (which claims that American leaders orchestrated the Civil War to halt the impending socialist revolution), don’t waste your money; you’re unlikely to learn much. In fact, according to a 2006 study by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, you might end up among the 40 percent of college students who can’t place the Civil War in the correct decade.
Many years ago there was a "student rebellion" at UMass/Amherst and not all the gripes the kids (well, my generational gray-haired "kids") offered up were off the wall. One of them dealt with the racket professors were running by forcing the students to buy textbooks authored by guess who -- and a lot of these books weren't the relatively inexpensive paperbacks written by political authors like Zinn. Oh, you know what I mean by now, the big suckers costing over a hundred bucks for starters.
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Sure, it was a racket, but I'm sure a lot of ("like-minded") profs got around it through a circle of "friendly recommendations" and these helped each other still make up those "lost royalties." But if they couldn't pull this off, I'm sure a lot of those would-be revolutionary future profs are kicking themselves now.
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I think anybody who allows their kids to belong to the United States Student Association needs to have their heads examined when Sallie Mae can do the job without the kids getting tarnished for life by association with one of the most innocuous sounding fronts with the longest lasting staying power.
My son graduated from the UMAss Isenberg School of Management. Before the name change, it was also known as THE School of Marxism. More guys in love with Marx there than a whole theater full of moviegoers looking for a good laugh.
I'm surprised the SOM didn't get a piece of the Berlin Wall but for entirely different purposes than we'd use it for. It'd be the only atheist wailing wall in the world.
And a lot of them, well ... give 'em your prayers ... they still don't get it and it's been almost 20 years. Long time a' mournin'.
How did you like that T-shirt! Damn, that was great!
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