COLLEGES ARE REMOVING OUR LOVE OF COUNTRY

COLLEGES ARE REMOVING OUR LOVE OF COUNTRY

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

For many years the mantra has been college is essential for obtaining the good life. Only by gaining a four year degree does a person have the “golden ticket” to enter the lucrative business world. Degrees were no longer about increasing one’s knowledge but all about earning more money. Once a student had a diploma their well being was supposed to be insured. There was such consensus to this belief that parents, teachers, other authorities and the entire media sold this message. It was done so well that most well paying jobs have begun to demand a college diploma when in the past many professionals learned from on-the-job training to move up the ladder.

Higher education’s open admission policies in the 1960s opened the floodgates to college. More than half a century later the number of college slots have overwhelmingly expanded. Students with minimum or deficient academic skills can enter college taking remedial courses without earning any credit until they upgrade their academic abilities. Statistically “45% of students showed no significant gains in learning” after two years in college.”  “Thirty-two percent never take “a course in a typical semester where they read more than 40 pages a week.” “Study says College Students Don’t Learn Very Much” The Atlantic, 2011. These unprepared students pay full tuition often for more than four years to earn their degree and they are earning less after graduation than previous graduates.  

College and universities have become lucrative institutions.  According to Bloomberg, “college tuition and fees have increased 1,120 percent since records began in 1978.” “There has been a truly mind-boggling increase in college tuition since 1960”: according to The Competitive Enterprise Institute. They continue, “Law school tuition has risen 1000% after adjusting for inflation.”

Besides the outrageous debt being occurring, these institutions hire approximately 90% liberal progressive teachers while only 10% are considered traditional conservatives. The lopsided orientation of college professors being progressives has changed college from being objective bastions of debate and critical thinking to centers of socialist-communist indoctrination.

Other realities that have bolstered one-sided orientation in college are the hiring practices and tenure. College administrations are predominately progressive and tend to hire professors with similar understanding and interest in the world. Professors with opposite views of the world are rejected and ostracized. Traditional professors having their material published does not happen as it would not fit the political and cultural viewpoint of the faculty.

These factors add up to college climates where one size fits all. Progressive professors teach specific notions and ideas of the socialist-communist agenda which is, according to them, preferable to constitutional republic/capitalism. Liberal advocates are turning all historically positive acknowledgements, protections of freedom of citizens and restrictions placed on a centrally controlled government by our constitution and higher economic living standards into liabilities. Global warming, minority over majority rights, anti religious beliefs, mob abuse over the rule of law, and globalism over patriotic love of country are being propagandized as virtues.

Our institutions of higher education have turned our young and adult citizens against the greatness of the USA. It is converting students to be anti-American time bombs ready to be set off by trigger events and language implanted in naïve minds of these students. The twisting of historical events to appear negative when it does not account for the entire context of the events that took place in a different period and culture is pure distortion. These methods of excluding certain relevant information to form a narrative that illustrates the positives of progressive ideas and beliefs has had a strong impact on young student’s attitudes towards unrealistic utopian thinking.

Even our founding fathers’ genius of creating an intricate and balanced system of laws in our constitutional republic is described as a racist, repressive oligarchy preventing equality for all. These students see our nation as having ruined the climate and the cohesiveness of the global alliance for world peace that a one-world-government will bring.

The socialist-communist governments’ massacres of the past and present are revised to appear as humanitarian successes. The starvation mass murders and slave camps are overlooked or purposely distorted. The history of our world is being purposely distorted to change future voters against our national heritage.

America needs citizens united to appreciate the exceptionalism of the nation to defend our liberties. Diversity of thought in hiring college professors is needed to protect America from becoming another failed communist experiment. Universities have always been a place for the exchange of ideas not where only one side is heard. Citizens must hear the historical truth to keep Americans free.

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.