Ask Dr. Helen: How Can I Keep My Students From Becoming Little Marxists?
Why is it that, by and large, the people to the Left of Center who have placed remarks on this blog have posted comments that are, more often than not, flip, sarcastic, snarky, and condescending?
We respect the topic and think it’s valid. I used to be on the Left and I’ve been on the inside: living with and daily rubbing elbows with academic intellectuals.
#75, gnatzee, I have friends who are high school teachers (I’m now a stock analyst at a small investment firm in New Hampshire)and they all tell me that there are teachers and administrators in the school system they work for who do indeed indoctrinate their students. I don’t want to make light of your experience and I take you at your word. I’m sure there are plenty of h.s. teachers who are not indoctrinating. But there are plenty who are. Don’t universalize your experience.
#73, Pete, I was at Loyola of Chicago 1985-87 and not all of the professors were Marxists in the Philosophy department. Neither were most of the Jesuits in the Jesuit community I lived in. Some were. But I do not recall any of us pushing our agenda on our students. Now, I cannot speak for what happened in the Nineties and beyond. Things may have gone south rather quickly (and I understand they have). When I was in college and graduate school there were no p.c. codes imposed on us. In my grad school experience at Loyola, towards the end you began to see some of that. A couple of years later, after I had left the Jesuits, I went to Boston College’s M.B.A. program and you could see more of it creeping in. But, I graduated from that program in ’91 and a LOT has happened since. Thus, my experience is dated. Yours sounds like it is far more up to date.
