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Thursday, March 11, 2010

What the Hell Are Colleges Teaching?

To put it bluntly the title says it all. From constantly hearing in the news reports of professors with extremist views trying to rewrite history in their classrooms, violating ethics, having affairs with students and other doing other things I assume are not in their job descriptions, I’m always wondering why aren’t they fired?

Well just like everything else in this world it boils down to politics, it’s everywhere, in the schools, political office, churches, non-profit organizations. Politics has become a very naughty word used to describe liars, crooks and thieves.

I don’t want to turn this into an outright political discussion and bore the hell out of everyone reading this so let’s get on to the meat of the story which is this video I came across on youtube. We’ve seen plenty of videos like this from liberals during election times to paint a picture and it was found acceptable no matter how obviously setup or doctored, let’s see what this one does for you.

This just may be one of the biggest reasons our country is in the trouble it is in today. It begins at the education level, for years now our children have been exposed to indoctrination education and the effects are clear.

This video doesn't examine the little kiddies but rather students from a supposed prestigious university where where many of our leaders in political office get their training prep to govern. So you have to ask yourself, what are they being taught there and who the heck is teaching them, that will have to wait for another story, we already have seen in the news everything from domestic terrorist to child molesters teaching in colleges and amazingly they are able to keep those jobs even after being exposed.

This video explores the campus of UC Berkley, it looks more like they are promoting idiocy, take a look for yourself. This is really disgusting and pathetic.

Steven Crowder goes undercover exposing UC Berkeley's liberal bias and the indoctrination underway in its classrooms. You won't believe the hilarious and alarming interactions Steven has with the Berkeley students.

 

 

See how grade schools are
rewriting history!

 

 

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Reagan Gets the Shaft in Textbooks

Expert: Reagan Gets the Shaft in Textbooks

March 11, 2010 - 1:45 PM | by: Shannon Bream

If you want to know just what your kids are learning from their history books, all you have to do is apply the "Reagan test," says Professor Larry Schweikart.

As the Texas textbook battle continues to simmer, Schweikart says the first thing he does to determine whether a book is politically slanted is to go to any section discussing President Ronald Reagan. What you'll find there, he says, will tell you everything you need to know, he says.

Schweikart says the majority of books he’s examined credit former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with ending the Cold War, and not Reagan. That's “a joke,” Schweikart says. “I lived through the Reagan years, I remember.”

“The reason why textbooks get to where they are is because this is the world view of (a) the people who write the text books, (b) people who edit the text books, and (c) people who publish them,” the history professor says.

Schweikart says the textbooks' authors bring an inherently liberal viewpoint to their work.

“They all tend to come from New York, Boston, Washington and Philadelphia,” giving them a “drastically” different viewpoint from the rest of America, he says.

Aside from bias, there are factual errors as well.

One book -- Call to Freedom: Beginnings to 1877 (Holt, 2003) -- states on pages 53-54 that Christopher Columbus was "the first European explorer to land in the Americas."  But Norseman Leif Ericson actually arrived hundreds of years earlier – a fact that is stated on page 18 of the same book.

How about the Louisiana Purchase in 1803? The same textbook says that the Louisiana Purchase extended America to the Mississippi River, when it actually expanded all the way to the Rocky Mountains.

Another text, The American Nation: Beginnings Through 1877 (Prentice, 2003),  states that the city of New Orleans was settled by the French in the 1600s. But didn’t actually happen until 1718.

With this in mind, parents may be inspired to start digging into their own children’s books to see what’s inside. And experts say that's a great idea.

Gilbert T. Sewall, Director of the American Textbook Council, says: “The facts are often used to create an interpretation or reality that simply is at the very least controversial and may be dead wrong.”

Dr. Frank Wang, one-time president of Saxon Publishing, says there are serious “quality control” problems. Wang cautions that many books are thrown together on a tight schedule by a group of freelance writers, leaving them with little time or pride of authorship. He’s spotted errors touching on everything from the Statue of Liberty to the Korean War.

Sewall is also aware of the mistakes. “The problem with textbooks," he says, "is missing information, or distorted information.”

See what they learn in college!