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.
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.
Should the Right Create "Activist" Universities?
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.
We absolutely need Constitution and America loving universities!
Hillsdale College, Hillsdale Michigan
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