Wednesday, May 29, 2013

How to Undo the Institutional Brainwashing of Your College Student (Child)

Dr. Thomas Sowell of Stanford's Hoover Institute writes:

This time of year, as college students return home for the summer, many parents may notice how many politically correct ideas they have acquired on campus. Some of those parents may wonder how they can undo some of the brainwashing that has become so common in what are supposed to be institutions of higher learning....

Just demolishing a few crucial beliefs, and exposing what nonsense they are, can deal a blow to the general credibility of the professorial pied pipers....
For example, if the student has been led to join the crusade for more gun control, and thinks that the reason the British have lower murder rates than Americans have is because the Brits have tighter gun control laws, just give him or her a copy of the book "Guns and Violence" by Joyce Lee Malcolm.
As the facts in that book demolish the gun control propaganda fed to students by their professors, that can create a healthy skepticism about other professorial propaganda...
Read the whole article here.
I would also suggest articles and books by and referred by Dr. Walter Williams.
Most importantly, for the Christian parent, I would suggest much prayer and time in the Word, and then help their child do the same, bringing to bear a biblical worldview onto their adopted liberal worldview. And perhaps reconsider sending their child back into the cesspool of so many colleges and universities and paying them to destroy all that you invested and taught them.

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