UNIVERSITIES SHOULD PROMOTE DIVERSITY OF THOUGHT NOT PROPAGANDIZE

UNIVERSITIES SHOULD PROMOTE DIVERSITY OF THOUGHT NOT PROPAGANDIZE

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

Some educators have begun to call for the abolition of federal, state, and non-profit money going to higher education propaganda mills. Many qualified students, especially males, are choosing to bypass higher education. These potential students realize their traditional moral values and inherent maleness are under direct attack. Female as well as male students are realizing that you either conform to progressive ideals or you will be penalized with lower grades, mental frustration or administrative punishment.

Most progressives are obsessed with Russian interference in President Trump’s election while they have conveniently forgotten about the Soviet’s infiltration and entrenchment in our entire educational system. This re-education process has been going on for many decades although it has accelerated in the past decade. Radical/ socialist student have now been empowered to shut down opposing speech. Students expounding traditional conservative viewpoints have been shouted down and physically attacked to intimidate them into silence. Professors have exploited the authority and tenure of their position to ridicule and demean traditional conservative ideas and proponents while glorifying utopian ones that sound spectacular but do not work.

Radical students, including Antifa followers have been shielded from any consequences for threatening or actual violent behavior. Universities have gone a step further by coddling any student who has been exposed to any ideas or philosophical systems that offend them. They have created “safe spaces, crying closets and soothing animals” to pet to deal with people of different ideas that disturb them. Too many of them are so intolerant of different viewpoints that they appear to be on the brink of insanity.

The ability to rationally and openly discus opposing viewpoints is no longer allowed to exist in universities. Students were expected to learn and debate different philosophies to stimulate critical thinking. Indoctrinating naïve minded students with only one way of thinking is the antithesis of a university’s mission. Reeducation of young adults with taxpayer money has no place in our constitutional republic.

Educational institutions should be immediately reformed. The citizens of the USA deserve to have their young adults learn different viewpoints to be better prepared to face and shape theirs and the country’s future and the reality of life. They should be taught the good and bad analysis of our nation to make informed decisions. Indoctrinating students through revisionist history to hate their country’s flag, founders, institutions and entire history as a nation leads to anger and disrespect for all its accomplishments. American students should be able to be proud of their nation without reprisal from professors and anti American students.

Diversity of thought not diversity of the “protected ‘privileged’ classes” should be the expressed aim of education. This concept of protected students is a product of attempting to create a socialistic nation based on dependency of accepting the professor’s statements without critically challenging them. This social engineering encourages compliance not individual thought and merit.

We are witnessing many young progressive political stars pathetically displaying their academic ignorance and simplistic arguments. Universities will only change when their revenue is based on the quality of education not on state and federal guidelines and mandates. Students should receive financial aid based on merit not on social justice mandates. Professors should sign a pledge to allow both sides of an issue to be expressed as well as respect students who believe in our traditions.

Conservative traditional professors should no longer be blackballed but should be on a 50-50 basis with progressive teachers. Diversity of ideas should be encouraged or the educational institution should be penalized financially or lose their licensure for not doing so. A university that does not promote critical thinking is not fulfilling its mission.

Our current university system is not preparing our young citizens to continue the US leadership role in the world. Instead it is only developing an ignorant class of socialists who do not understand our generosity, sacrifice, and greatness rather than detest our country.

Brainwashing our future leaders to hate our laws, institutions and constitution is a direct path to disunity and civil war. This would be a disaster for everyone: traditionalists as well as progressives. Diversity of thought along with the protection of everyone’s freedom of speech results in a vibrant society.

Our nation is great enough to be able to accommodate all points of view through the first amendment, Freedom of Speech, also results in freedom of thought.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a new just published book, entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can visit Dr. Maglio at www.drmaglio.blogspot.com.