Joe (there's that name again) Stalin said, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world". Meaning who and how the babies are educated controls how and what they will think as adults. Conservative America lost control of the Education system back in the 1950s/60s
William F. Buckley wrote "God and Man & Yale" a bombshell in 1950 exposing how the faculty at Yale stifled free thinking even back then.
Right! In Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, his Captain Beatty outlines the importance of ideologically capturing the cradle and trying to eliminate any non-state influence on education.
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The real reason for programs like daycare and operation headstart that are cloaked as helping children at an early age or taking care of preschool children. To allow the Mother out of the house to work and support or help support the family. In truth its to gain access and influence over the very young children. A psychologist will tell you that 70% of a person's basic personality is formed from birth to age seven. Ever wonder why people vote for the likes of OBid=n, this is why, they've been conditioned by the US educational system. The Leipzig Connection.
Agreed; that is an excellent institution. But there need to be more! Imagine if Hillsdale had a competitor college on the Right that pushed it to be ever more excellent and which was pushed in turn.
1. (Re)implementing more "Great Books" into the curriculum isn't anti-left/pro-right.
2. IMO, there should be no teaching of "my country, right or wrong." The country is flawed because it is designed and administered by people, and all people are likewise flawed. The curriculum should be designed to identify and address the flaws as well as the features.
In my opinion a "Great" Uni in the US would not be much different than a Great University anywhere else. They should be designed to seek truth and beauty, those ideals should be anchored into perpetuity (likely), but the means to achieve that may (likely should) evolve over time as the people focused on seeking those truths learn more and more.
1) My undergrad alma mater dismantled its great books program. I was on a small committee of alums doing what little we could to stop this and one member said, "We don't want to get any conservative organizations on our side--we don't want people to think great books are conservative." But, what Liberal organization would stick their neck out? At this point, maintaining a robust great books program takes a certain kind of spine to stand up to the attacks on them, and this puts you on the Right in today's climate. Maybe it didn't always do this.
2) I never said "my country, right or wrong." I want to teach students to love what is lovable about their own nation and to wish for their nation to rule itself instead of being ruled by global interests. Naturally, one should want to change the bad things about their country and make them better.
3) Yes, truth and beauty have to be at the center--and I said the creator of such a university must never lose sight of the dogma question! But if or to the extent that many universities are squelching both truth and beauty, then one has to fight to secure conditions in which truth and beauty can enjoy their proper places in political life.
I must preface, I am not intelligence I wont pretend to be, only a humble inquirer of things....
The global homogenization of culture, capital, academia - they all seem to connect to the same beast (heads of a hydra possibly). Brian say our government is ruled by global interests. I agree. But do we have a robust ontology of capital or academia? How do we, or should we strive to, keep capital from becoming international? As capital becomes international, nations must answer to international interests at risk of losing said capital. Americana education and culture also seem to share this model; spreading wherever it can. Are they one in the same? Is the cure for the academy the same for capital, and for culture? Is there a panacea for this pandemic?
Will nationalization of education require nationalization of capital? Or am I just imagining this relationship? I bring up capital only because I not sure if you can just bandaid academia with first removing international interests.
It is a shame about the great books courses. I pushed my kid to look at St. Johns, but she was not interested, at all. Looking at SJU's admissions rate and acceptance rates, it seems that the demand is lacking, despite the successes of its graduates.
I'm with you on the anti-globalism stance, in fact I'm pretty pushy towards local rule with a thin veneer of Federal oversight.
Thank you for your response, you have a new subscriber. I look forward to more from you.
Thank you for your response! Yes...St. John's is an interesting question. I sometimes wonder if part of their problem is bowing down to the times to some extent. I know a large number of St. John's alums; a few of them are some of the smartest people that I know. BUT, many of them aren't--many somehow go to St. John's, read the great books and talk about them for four years, and yet somehow leave the school with almost the exact same moral opinions intact that they had when they began. I don't expect the great books to necessarily turn one into a right winger, but they ought to expand your moral imagination so that you think in terms that are much deeper and broader than Democrat vs. Republican.
Joe (there's that name again) Stalin said, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world". Meaning who and how the babies are educated controls how and what they will think as adults. Conservative America lost control of the Education system back in the 1950s/60s
William F. Buckley wrote "God and Man & Yale" a bombshell in 1950 exposing how the faculty at Yale stifled free thinking even back then.
Right! In Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, his Captain Beatty outlines the importance of ideologically capturing the cradle and trying to eliminate any non-state influence on education.
The real reason for programs like daycare and operation headstart that are cloaked as helping children at an early age or taking care of preschool children. To allow the Mother out of the house to work and support or help support the family. In truth its to gain access and influence over the very young children. A psychologist will tell you that 70% of a person's basic personality is formed from birth to age seven. Ever wonder why people vote for the likes of OBid=n, this is why, they've been conditioned by the US educational system. The Leipzig Connection.
We absolutely need Constitution and America loving universities!
Yes.
Hillsdale College, Hillsdale Michigan
Agreed; that is an excellent institution. But there need to be more! Imagine if Hillsdale had a competitor college on the Right that pushed it to be ever more excellent and which was pushed in turn.
We also need to reverse trainings and seminars in the business world, to counter act the woke trainings the Left force employees to sit though.
1. (Re)implementing more "Great Books" into the curriculum isn't anti-left/pro-right.
2. IMO, there should be no teaching of "my country, right or wrong." The country is flawed because it is designed and administered by people, and all people are likewise flawed. The curriculum should be designed to identify and address the flaws as well as the features.
In my opinion a "Great" Uni in the US would not be much different than a Great University anywhere else. They should be designed to seek truth and beauty, those ideals should be anchored into perpetuity (likely), but the means to achieve that may (likely should) evolve over time as the people focused on seeking those truths learn more and more.
tl;dr: don't fight dogma with dogma
1) My undergrad alma mater dismantled its great books program. I was on a small committee of alums doing what little we could to stop this and one member said, "We don't want to get any conservative organizations on our side--we don't want people to think great books are conservative." But, what Liberal organization would stick their neck out? At this point, maintaining a robust great books program takes a certain kind of spine to stand up to the attacks on them, and this puts you on the Right in today's climate. Maybe it didn't always do this.
2) I never said "my country, right or wrong." I want to teach students to love what is lovable about their own nation and to wish for their nation to rule itself instead of being ruled by global interests. Naturally, one should want to change the bad things about their country and make them better.
3) Yes, truth and beauty have to be at the center--and I said the creator of such a university must never lose sight of the dogma question! But if or to the extent that many universities are squelching both truth and beauty, then one has to fight to secure conditions in which truth and beauty can enjoy their proper places in political life.
I must preface, I am not intelligence I wont pretend to be, only a humble inquirer of things....
The global homogenization of culture, capital, academia - they all seem to connect to the same beast (heads of a hydra possibly). Brian say our government is ruled by global interests. I agree. But do we have a robust ontology of capital or academia? How do we, or should we strive to, keep capital from becoming international? As capital becomes international, nations must answer to international interests at risk of losing said capital. Americana education and culture also seem to share this model; spreading wherever it can. Are they one in the same? Is the cure for the academy the same for capital, and for culture? Is there a panacea for this pandemic?
Will nationalization of education require nationalization of capital? Or am I just imagining this relationship? I bring up capital only because I not sure if you can just bandaid academia with first removing international interests.
It is a shame about the great books courses. I pushed my kid to look at St. Johns, but she was not interested, at all. Looking at SJU's admissions rate and acceptance rates, it seems that the demand is lacking, despite the successes of its graduates.
I'm with you on the anti-globalism stance, in fact I'm pretty pushy towards local rule with a thin veneer of Federal oversight.
Thank you for your response, you have a new subscriber. I look forward to more from you.
Thank you for your response! Yes...St. John's is an interesting question. I sometimes wonder if part of their problem is bowing down to the times to some extent. I know a large number of St. John's alums; a few of them are some of the smartest people that I know. BUT, many of them aren't--many somehow go to St. John's, read the great books and talk about them for four years, and yet somehow leave the school with almost the exact same moral opinions intact that they had when they began. I don't expect the great books to necessarily turn one into a right winger, but they ought to expand your moral imagination so that you think in terms that are much deeper and broader than Democrat vs. Republican.