It has become a
cliché that the college experience indoctrinates our children to serve as cogs
in the progressive machine; but the truth nowadays is that our entire culture
does this job of formatting long before the senior year in high school.
Colleges
around the nation have now been in session for about a month. I have noticed
this fall, especially, that conservative commentators have been decrying the
influence of Ivory Tower propaganda upon impressionable young charges. Far from
finding this chorus off key, I could chime in with my own examples of abuse
from forty years ago. I might mention a slovenly Teacher’s Assistant who taught
Composition at William and Mary: he wore shoes, but never were they sullied by
anything so bourgeois as a pair of socks. This New Age evangelist seemed to
consider it his solemn duty to stir coeds up against the curfew enforced upon
their dorms. It became common knowledge that the dull slattern who secured one
of the few A’s in his class got a lot closer to his gritty epidermis than
certain articles of his wardrobe.....To Read More....
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