The UK has done this and take it quite seriously.
I would like to save others from the same sick stomachs I got whenever my lib profs started off on their leftist rants.
How about you?
2007-10-14 21:32:15 · 10 answers · asked by wider scope 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Pagan when a college prof goes off on his jibe and attacks the opinion of anyone who disagrees, taints them for the rest of the semester and makes their lives altogether more difficult, it is akin to forced indoctrination and there is no place for that in our college system. I had to deal with it TOO many times and it was horribly unfair to me. Too many profs expect their students to fall in line with them or, face the consequences. - No excuse for robbing others of their intellectual freedoms.
2007-10-14 21:43:24 · update #1
I'm the product of receiving an education from 10 public schools (from K-12) and in every case, they all provided indoctrinating students to only view political prospectives from a liberal standpoint.
To this day I sit and think of how in fourth grade I was so proud to vote for Jimmy Carter (as well as everyone else in the class) and to think how joyous it made our homeroom teacher.
So I look back at Jimmy's accomplishments as President, look back on all the reports I did on (my then) Presidential hero, John F. Kennedy... Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Jackson, LBJ, Carter and others... All desperately influenced to me and other students as superior Presidents (in their day) and when I look back on history 'after' going through all the infected indoctrinating ploys by my then teachers...
I stand proud knowing their complete (forced) tunnel vision on my political upbringing (brainwashing) didn't stand the testaments of time once I got hit in the nuts by a soccer ball and woke up from the trance I was in.
My nuts were smaller than a squirrels so it didn't hurt at all, but everything else shook lose and I've been a free man ever since.
2007-10-15 02:03:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A kindergarten teacher extolling the virtues of a president or any other leader is political indoctrination.
A professor, giving his opinion to thinking adults, is not indoctrinating anyone.
A certain amount of "indoctrination' in schools is healthy for young children. Kids should sing the national anthem and recite the oath of allegiance in school. It is NOT indoctrination. It is a recognition that some things in life are more important that your own selfish little interests, and there is a duty to your fellow citizens as well as to yourself. Maybe then, there wouldn't be so much ranting on Yahoo Answers if people understood that.
2007-10-14 21:38:01 · answer #2 · answered by Pagan Dan 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Actually I suffered that in High school by my history teacher...he was a democrat. And yes, he expected all the students to fall in line under him. Consequently he drank himself to death shortly after retiring. My memory of him is that he was a despicable human being and I felt nothing when hearing about him dying.
You are right. That type of thing has no place in any educational institution, aside from political science. In that forum, it would be critical for the faculty member to be extremely non biased.
2007-10-14 21:57:01 · answer #3 · answered by The prophet of DOOM 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In elementary school and even high school, I definately think things should be taught from a politically neutral standpoint. But in college, that's the way it is and the way it should be. College is supposed to be about learning to think critically and logically. Hearing differing view points on various subjects is part of how that's done.
Now I will acknowledge that a good professor will try to be balanced and offer a variety of opinions and points of view on any given subject. But if you have that much of a problem with it, then feel free to transfer to Oral Roberts U or some other hotbed for rightist thinking.
Pagan Dan: I agree with you except for one thing. No one should be asked to take any kind of oath until they have the tools to understand what they are saying. Asking 5-6 year-old children to swear an oath the the US every day completely undermines the purpose of an oath and reduces it to something as meaningless as having a bowl of cereal in the morning.
2007-10-14 21:41:00 · answer #4 · answered by Justin H 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
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2016-11-08 08:55:04 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, absolutely
David Horowitz is leading the charge for academic freedom:
2007-10-14 21:34:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Oh Hell Yes.
Take a look at this:
My Opinion on War and the USA [[im 12 years old]] read please?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ai5yUZVmwxQkLbUWQ3b7ChXty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071014220403AAWFomu&show=7#profile-info-RiGY2Xt1aa
2007-10-14 21:48:39 · answer #7 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Emphatically, YES!
2007-10-14 21:46:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It all leads to the same conclusion:
If voting could change anything , it would be illegal
2007-10-14 21:47:12 · answer #9 · answered by sea link2 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes but they let the sex offenders sty and teach so we need to jail them all.
2007-10-14 23:55:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋