So argues UC-Santa Cruz professor John Ellis in today’s Wall Street Journal.
He writes:
Never have college campuses exerted so great or so destructive an influence. Once an indispensable support of our advanced society, academia has become a cancer metastasizing through its vital organs. The radical left is the cause, most obviously through the one-party campuses having graduated an entire generation of young Americans indoctrinated with their ideas.
Ellis is correct. Higher education (indeed, most of education overall), has been taken over by people who have been taught to believe that our traditions of limited government and freedom are responsible for the world’s ills. In the teaching ranks, most are not just leftist in outlook, but think it’s their mission to act as change agents by turning students into zealots for every “progressive” cause. We have seen much evidence of that in recent weeks on our campuses.
Many students receive daily doses of leftist, anti-liberal (using the word in its true sense) messaging, but rarely will they hear anyone explain what’s good about our Constitution, about economic freedom, about individual responsibility. For decades, our educational leaders have allowed their institutions to be transformed into places for indoctrination.
Ellis continues:
An advanced society can’t tolerate the capture of its educational system by a fringe political sect that despises its Constitution and way of life. We have no choice: We must take back control of higher education from cultural vandals who have learned nothing from the disastrous history of societies that have implemented their ideas.
Indeed.