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Leftist California Professors "Corrupt" Higher Education

eddie again Wrote: Apr 12, 2012 1:26 PM

there is a educational concept called "critical thinking". government run indoctrination centers are designed and run to make sure as few as possible graudates can think "critically". when a government eliminates "critical thinking" among its citizens, there will be no opposition to its policies. now do you understand what happens when government controls education?

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Leftist California Professors "Corrupt" Higher Education

"I don't know any polite way of putting this -- but he's lying," said professor John Ellis, president of the National Association of Scholars' California division. Ellis was reacting to a critic's characterization of the NAS's damning report, "A Crisis of Competence: The Corrupting Effect of Political Activism in the University of California."

California taxpayers spend $2.8 billion to educate the more than 230,000 students at the 10 campuses that comprise the UC system. But the report says the UC system does not help students learn how to think, but rather teaches them what to think. And what they "learn"...

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