Sadly, if you've attended a graduation ceremony in the last 15 years,
chances are you heard from a Democratic Party official, liberal activist, or
someone within the mainstream media. Young America's Foundation has kept a
record. The tabulations are fairly simple. We match the U.S. News & World
Report's rankings of the top 100 universities with the commencement speakers at
those institutions. Our analysis shows that the overwhelming majority of those
who can be classified on an ideological spectrum are left of center. For more
than a decade conservative commencement speakers haven't even come close to
halving the number of those who are liberals. By our count, there were only six
recognizable conservatives this year - less than one-fifth the number of liberal
speakers...
Professors at the University of Georgia tried stonewalling an invitation to
Justice Clarence Thomas by citing the much-discredited Anita Hill allegation.
Chris Cuomo, the school's director of the Institute for Women's Studies (where
else?), "wonder[ed] if the university administration is sending an intentional
message that [UGA] believe* matters of sexual harassment and gender equity are
trivial." The fact that Miss Cuomo seriously thinks an invitation to Justice
Thomas is a tacit acceptance of sexual harassment is enough to question her
aptitude. But more importantly, it gives us a glimpse into how the
"intelligentsia" perceives higher education: a brainwashing boot camp. That's
why conservative professors and textbooks are virtually nonexistent and why
commencement ceremonies send the graduating class off with one more predictable,
leftist lecture.
Read the whole thing. Gro Harlem Brundtland's appearance at Michigan State, at which I was present, merited a mention, and rightly so; she came into our country, told us that we had to believe in global warming, and badmouthed a member of the United States Supreme Court merely for disagreeing. It was a disgraceful speech given by a lower-order thinker, but it certainly captured the spirit of "higher" education these days.
An enshrined materialism and rationalism at our universities and colleges has done much to injure free inquiry and debate. Of course, reason itself tells us that reason is not sufficient to understand everything we experience; Kant proved that quite satisfactorily. But the centers of learning today believe otherwise, and the loss of a sense of mystery surrounding human nature and human society leads them to believe that the humanities can be a science like anything else. And once laid down--according to one's own assumptions--who can question the scientific laws? Resultantly, university students are not taught how to think, but what to think. Any other interpretation is derided as ignorant.
Unfortunately, our college students do not receive an education that disciplines them to be humble and open-minded, to question their own assumptions. We no longer produce philosophers; we produce engineers with an arrogant indifference to the physical laws with which they must work.
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