Corruption of Youth Called Education

Socrates was put to death for corrupting the youth of Athens. That's what we have been doing with great success in our universities for far too long.

Florida is attempting to preserve the Republic by instilling respect rather than hatred for the foundations of our nation, which is what most of us have been doing, unchecked, for far too long. Mea maxima culpa. I was a feminist sociologist who resigned when I realized I enjoyed turning young women into ANGRY young wimmin.

Let's be real.

We haven't just been revealing the truth to young people. We have deliberately endeavored to "distort significant historical events or include a curriculum that teaches identity politics...based on theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created to maintain social, political, and economic inequities" (Florida Statute 1007.25). We have reveled in distortions and falsehoods as Ward Churchill did. How many of us gleefully taught the lies about the deliberate infection with smallpox of indigenous Americans? The 1619 Project has many historical errors; even Hannah-Jones says it was not meant to be factual but provocative. That curriculum is in thousands of schools across the USA as fact! That is subversion, plain and simple.

<blockquote>"But as evidence mounts of limited learning, student delinquency, and low levels of college readiness, we find the benefits of general education in the old sense incontrovertible. A freshman year of structured historic content, shared with peers, inducts them into higher learning better than does a smattering of more or less interesting classes that never assemble into a meaningful whole. It gives young Americans a coherent vision of the past, a plot of major developments, a Big Picture of the world they’re about to enter, an ennobling heritage" (Bauerlein and Yenor 2024).</blockquote>

The Leftist rabble rousers say that Florida is trampling on academic freedom. Alas, with great freedom comes great responsibility, but there has been too much of the former and not enough of the latter.

Let's encourage the youth of Athens (Wisconsin, Georgia, Michigan, the other 12 and beyond) to appreciate this singular nation and to desire to help build it up, rather than tear it down.