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Indoctrination U: The Lefts War Against Academic Freedom Paperback – March 23, 2009

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In 2003, David Horowitz began a campaign to promote intellectual diversity and a return to academic standards in American universities. To achieve these goals he devised an Academic Bill of Rights and created a national student movement with chapters on 160 college campuses. Take No Prisoners is a riveting account of the reaction to Horowitz's campaign by professor unions and academic associations, whose leaderships have been taken over by the political left.

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Publisher : Encounter Books (March 23, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 170 pages
ISBN-10 : 1594032378
ISBN-13 : 978-1594032370
Item Weight : 11 ounces
Dimensions : 6.25 x 0.75 x 9 inches

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RuggedShark

A must read if you have been abused by the constant

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2013

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haranguing of the socialists in the public schools. It doesn't end at high school. But Horowitz shows clear ways to protest and stop the unending abusive indoctrination we call "higher education." His books are great and well researched. The examples will make your skin crawl as to what passes for education. The Progressive Socialists have dominated the sheeples long enough and the education system is their turf. Don't get into it without knowing what you are up against. (also see "NEA Trojan Horse in American Education).

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Keen Incite

Indoctrination Instead of Education

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David Horowitz' "Indoctrination U" is not so much a litany of documented instances of academic abuse in the college ranks as it is an apology for his Academic Bill of Rights. Although he gives some examples of how activist professors abuse their charges with unwarranted political ideology, the book is more a refutation of the irrational, knee-jerk responses propagated by the Bill's detractors.

Horowitz effectively conveys the frustration he feels in being unable to break through the liberal "ivory tower" of academe to convince anybody that a) there is a problem, and b) he's got the fix for it - even though the "fix" is simply reinstating the standards of conduct and scholarship agreed upon by college and university professors back in the 1940's.

The liberal academic establishment's adamant refusal to even revert back to the standards of the 1940's is explained succinctly by Horowitz when he writes: "The explanation lay in the opposition's determination to defend ground it had seized over a thirty-year march through the institutions; its political agendas required the abuses. It was because academic activists wanted to establish doctrinal orthodoxies in America's liberal arts colleges that they had declared war even on liberal proposals for reform."

To the uninitiated, the examples given in this book will shock the reader as to the desperate state of not only college and university education, but K - 12 education as well.

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Larry A. Singleton

Buy This Book!!!!

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This should be one of your "Bibles" when it comes to the fascist Left. Get....This.....Book!!!!! I promise, you will NOT regret it. This is almost a companion book with Kramer's "Ivory Towers". For me anyway. However, this and "The War Against Boys" by Sommers (Go and read the Preface here at Amazon.) should be sold as a gift set.

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Hay Seed

Good luck, Dr. Horowitz

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2011

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David Horowitz stated that when he attended Colombia and Berkeley in the 1950s, he never heard a professor express a political opinion in a campus setting. My, how times have changed.

After years of "exclusionary hiring practices," faculty liberals outnumber conservatives, 7 to 1. "All the professors had a (John) Kerry sticker on the office door... every single one." (p 72)

Indoctrination U pinpoints the political (vs. academic) nature of many college majors, as bluntly stated in their course descriptions. Egregious examples include Social work, Feminist studies, Peace studies, and African American studies - which was castigated for "fraudulent scholarship." (p 78)

Even Math departments seek to get in on the action. Gutstein has written a guide called Mathematics: Toward a Pedagogy for Social Justice. A Northeastern U. guide for K-12 teachers is called Rethinking Math: Teaching Social Justice by the Number.

In order to combat the intolerance of dissent, Horowitz's Academic Bill of Rights would essentially reinstate the campus codes that were widespread until the 1940s. Decisions would be made "without consideration of one's personal, political or religious beliefs." Good luck Dr. Horowitz. Your opposition is DEEPLY entrenched.

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Scott Walker

Genuine passion for our young

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2013

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Over the years Horowitz has become deeply concerned with the direction of universities (and K-12 as well): the political agenda, the intolerant atmosphere and, the radical attempt to turn schools into agencies of social change. He has dedicated hours upon hours to campus work crusading for academic freedom (the adoption of the Academic Bill of Rights). He has a genuine passion for our young. The urgency is real.

From the Berkeley, Academic Personnel Manual: "The foundation of the university is to seek and to transmit knowledge and to train students in the processes whereby truth is to be made known. To convert, or to make converts, is alien and hostile to this dispassionate duty. Where....." and it goes on. Sadly universities no longer hold to their own standards. Instead, liberal professors have entrenched themselves. Our universities are full of political activists. Beginning with the professorial activism in the 60's the radicals that arose out of that era then became the faculty.

Horowitz is labeled as toxic when speaking at campuses. Instead of making an effort to discuss the issue he, and those like-minded, are attacked. This familiar tactic of attacking and discrediting the message was, and still is used on Horowitz and others time and time again. Where is the open-mindedness? The liberals are attempting to make it sound like the author wants to get the teachers fired in order to bring conservative politics into the classroom. But this is completely false; it's about eliminating all political activism in the classroom. Of course they don't want that, they want to keep their agent of change.

Although Horowitz does say, "a professor who violates the standards of his profession...ought to be subject to disciplinary measures, including possible termination." He goes on to give examples of some of the outlandish courses being taught in opposition to American tradition. The Appendix contains The Academic Bill of Rights and the Academic Freedom Code for K-12 schools.

Scott

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cheryl teramoto

Thank you!

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Excellent price, quick shipping!

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