Indoctrination

Indoctrinate Your Children Well

Larry Doyle | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Virtue, Dr. Suess, Children's Books, Children, Politics, Books, Liberalism, Propaganda, Conservative, The Lorax, Indoctrination, Teaching, Movies, Politics News

Once upon a time, the lessons propagated by Dr. Seuss, then called conservation, anti-totalitarianism, equality, spirituality and trying new foods, were universal virtues we all wanted to teach our children. But now the right has exposed them as socialist scams.

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Compulsory Patriotism: Requiring the Pledge of Allegiance

David Moshman | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Pledge of Allegiance, Jehovah's Witnesses, First Amendment, Patriotism, West Virginia, Indoctrination, Nebraska, Intellectual Freedom, Michigan, Education News

Should the pledge be required? Should patriotism be compulsory? Can it be? The Supreme Court, it turns out, has already addressed these questions.

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Did Arizona Ban Ethnic Studies? Not Exactly

David Moshman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ethnic Studies, History, Education, Mexican-Americans, Academic Freedom, Indoctrination, Arizona, Intellectual Freedom, Censorship, African Americans, Culture, Education News

Although legislatures have a legitimate role in providing for student access, academic integrity and intellectual freedom in public schools, they have no business telling teachers what to teach.

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Academic Freedom and Indoctrination

David Moshman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Penn State, David Horowitz, Student Rights, Cary Nelson, Aaup, Stanley Fish, National Association of Scholars, Inside Higher Ed, Academic Freedom, Indoctrination, Education News

We all support essentially the same principles of academic freedom, including respect for the authority of faculty over the curriculum and respect for the right of students not to be indoctrinated.

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Liberty and Learning: Academic Freedom as Intellectual Freedom

David Moshman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Academic Freedom, Liberty, First Amendment, Indoctrination, Intellectual Freedom, Aaup, Learning, Education News

The aim of this new blog is to explain and promote academic freedom, which provides schools with academic integrity, maximizes the quality of education and research, and protects students from indoctrination.

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The Kremlin Continues Shaping a Group-Think Generation

Simon Shuster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nationalism, Politics, Konstantin Rykov, Russia, Vasily Yakimenko, Vladimir Putin, Nashi, Modernization, Vladislav Surkov, Indoctrination, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Seliger, World News

Even the cynics might have felt a sputter of optimism when the Kremlin youth group Nashi, Vladimir Putin's militant pep squad, announced its plans for this year's doctrinal summer camp at lake Seliger.

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A Stupid Made-for-TV Controversy

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

News cycles thrive on controversy and the extreme, so those elements of our country are continuing to get more and more airtime.

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Republicans Demand Equal Access to Schoolchildren

Don Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brainwashing, Mitch McConnell, Michele Bachmann, Cult of Personality, John Boehner, Hypnosis, President Barack Obama, America's Schoolchildren, Indoctrination, Republicans, Manchurian Candidate, Slit Wrists, Politics News

Amid the uproar over President Obama's grand scheme to use subliminal brainwashing to indoctrinate America's schoolchildren into his cult of personality, Republicans today demanded equal access to young minds so they could counterbalance the president's dangerous message.

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Friday Talking Points [92] -- The End Of Silly Season

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sadly, Obama's speech to school children has become mired in manufactured controversy from the right, with typical sky-is-falling rhetoric about the evil, evil man who occupies the Oval Office.

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How 30 Years of U.S. Mistakes Saved Ahmadinejad in Iran

Dr. Adam Lankford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Isolation, George Bush, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Indoctrination, Basij, Iran Election, Barack Obama, World News

In a misguided attempt to punish Iran for a range of crimes, including its state sponsorship of terrorism, the U.S. has insisted on comprehensive sanctions and deliberately worked to cut Iran off from the rest of the world.

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