A Key Lesson in Education Policy: You Don’t Make Peace with Termites
George Leef
– January 3, 2023 Reading Time: 4 minutes
https://www.aier.org/article/a-key-lesso...-with-termites/

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For most of the last century, the “progressives” have been taking over the nation’s education system at every level. Pick any teacher, professor, or administrator and the chances are high that he or she is utterly dedicated to the Leftist project of replacing our liberal (in the true sense of the word) society with their vision of a properly regulated one. By controlling education, the Leftists implant the ideas they favor into students (including collectivism, egalitarianism, and acceptance of authority) while at the same time repressing ones that work against them (such as individualism, skepticism of authority, and belief in the spontaneous order of liberty).

Due to the phenomenal success of that project, school and college curricula are saturated with hostility to Western civilization. Teachers are trained in “education schools” that promote failed pedagogical concepts while at the same time demonizing anything that’s remotely conservative or libertarian. Overwhelmingly, the people who work in state education bureaucracies have been steeped in leftist ideology. They are far less concerned about how well students learn to read, write, and do math than with turning them into zealous advocates for their pet causes.

And once students get into college, the drumbeat for “progressivism” continues. Not every student succumbs, of course, but the heavy leftist slant has a big impact on many of them. That helps to explain why such a high percentage of young voters went for the Democrats in 2022 and why so many hold frighteningly authoritarian beliefs.

This is as if someone had built a lovely house through savings and hard work, only to find that termites have infested the foundation. They are steadily chewing away at the wood, weakening it. They won’t stop. It’s what they do.-- excerpt, rest at link above --