AYERS\u2019 EDUCATIONAL POISON
\nBy Phil Kent<\/p>\n
Ever since January Barack Obama\u2019s administration, a Democratic Party majority in Congress and their allies in the media have been steadily working to change this country\u2019s culture and private enterprise system\u2014 and, in the process, ruin Middle America.<\/p>\n
Often overlooked in how this country\u2019s cultural and educational decline allowed the 2008 election of the most radical left-wing president ever is the role of the political Left within our education system over the past 40 years.<\/p>\n
The notorious Bill Ayers, the one-time radical Weather Underground leader whose group bombed government buildings and killed people in the name of fighting \u201cimperialism\u201d and \u201cracism,\u201d recently told the World Education Forum that all education programs should have a goal: \u201cthe motor-force of revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Ayers first surfaced in the media during the 2008 presidential campaign for hosting an Obama fund-raiser and serving on a foundation board with him, not much was reported about his work as a \u201cdistinguished professor of education\u201d at the University of Chicago. It\u2019s instructive, therefore, to reveal to the general public what Ayers and other leftist professors have taught students since the Vietnam war era. In fact, in his 2001 memoir \u201cFugitive Days,\u201d the Weatherman openly dreamed of destroying private enterprise and fantasized about a \u201cred army\u201d marching in to take over amidst the chaos of the Vietnam-era protests.<\/p>\n
Georgia English professor Mary Grabar, in a devastating white paper, chronicles Ayers\u2019 background:<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough Ayers is touted as an innovator, his pedagogy differs very little from the ideas of the Columbia Teachers college where he earned his graduate degree. Indeed, the notion of students spontaneously \u201cconstructing\u201d their own knowledge goes back to the progressive era. Now it has been mainstreamed into the educational establishment by those of Ayers\u2019 generation. Education professors specialize in such areas as \u201cqueer theory\u201d and \u201cpost-colonialism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ayers also serves as vice president of the curriculum studies division in the 25,000-member American Educational Research Association. As a professor of curriculum, Grabar writes, Ayers tells future teachers to eschew curriculum– except as false evidence in the event an administrator should ask for it. He promotes \u201cexperimental\u201d methods where students are expected to be \u201cconstructors of their own knowledge.\u201d Not surprisingly, Ayers\u2019 latest book is titled \u201cRace Course Against White Supremacy\u201d \u2013 essentially a vicious, self-hating screed against the white race.<\/p>\n
The Grabar report, available on the Internet at www.usasurvival.org, underscores that Ayers\u2019 techniques of fomenting racial discord are the same strategies that Communist defector Louis F. Budenz outlines in his 1954 book \u201cThe Techniques of Communism.\u201d<\/p>\n
An aroused public in all 50 states must pressure the overseers of their taxpayer-supported college systems so that tenured professors like Ayers are either removed or sidelined to a university broom closet. Traditional college education involves imparting critical thinking and marketable skills to students. The relentless brainwashing of students by the \u201cAyers School\u201d has nothing to do with that goal\u2014 and unfortunately has succeeded in turning all too many dumbed-down students against patriotism, our free enterprise system and our traditional Eurocentric law and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As Appeared in the July 2009 Middle American News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":75,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-220","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions\/322"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philkentconsulting.com\/wp\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}