It is past time for education institutions to encourage a careful unbiased study of history as the first course upon enrollment.
Obviously the knowledge is not being taught in lower level public schools.

Don't kid yourself...if you take away the government money, very few would remain. There is almost no higher education that is not government sponsored. Hillsdale may be it.

"School, especially colleges and universities, should be safe havens for ideas; places where different viewpoints can be freely and respectfully shared and debated. "
I thought everyone agreed with that. I hope this article is not true, but it could be.

Vassar is a well known liberal bastion of lower learning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztVaqZajq...

This article reminds me of when I was in college at UTSA about 19 years ago. I had a history professor that spent his whole first day talking about reparations and fairness. A black girl in the class raised her hand and said "My parents taught me that anything I wanted, I had to work for it and the teachers response was that she had listened to much to Bill O'reily so I stood up and explained that it was Blil Cosbey that had said that and his response was "Well, it was Bill somebody that said it!!!" He also said that the Bush administration was going to reestablish the draft for military servive but when I stood up and explained that it was two Democrats that proposed the bill he had nothing to say. I withdrew from his class and joined another class that until the end of the class I did not know where she stood. After graduation from her class I emailed her just to find out where she stood (politically) and she told me she was a Democrat but she was voting for Bush because she felt the party had moved too far away from her beliefs!!!! I wish more Democrats felt that way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you miss the point that current college students for the most part are poorly educated in the first place. they started out in government schools for the most part and were never taught to think and that started in kinder garden and followed through to the 12th grade. so now that they have been accepted into a college and they react to world events as they are is not a surprise. the world that they will wind up with is a world that i don't believe you would accept being in, i wouldn't.

Is it time to start using the discrimination laws against them? I know there has been some valid, legal backlash against affirmative action since it promotes racial discrimination. Having attended a liberal college, they make it pretty easy to prove discrimination in these cases. It might be worth throwing the book at them and pointing out the hypocrisy.

IMHO the "fair" is a perversion of the Progressive politician. There is no reference to it in the Constitution or the Bible. The former affords freedom the latter encourages the benefit of work.

I remember cartoon versions of ancient tales showing the conflict between the ant and the grasshopper, the tortoise and the hare, and the goose that laid the golden egg. Even tales from our heritage did not refer to fairness in any manner other than a description of beauty.

Where did the political construct of fairness come from? From class envy and politicians dividing people rather than uniting them. "It's not fair that some are wealthy while others are out of work."

In my world, the wealthy have projects they want to have done. These projects are too big and expansive for them to undertake themselves. So, they must hire people. In doing this it would seem the wealth changes hands, but not really. The value added by the laborer, for which he is paid, makes the project worth as much or more than sum total of the individual costs. In that way, wealth is created and "fairly" distributed to the ones that worked.

How could that possibly be unfair? If there are not enough projects to employ all, consider removing government obstacles standing in the way of projects, i.e. permits, fees, taxes, prevailing wages, EPA, OSHA, etc.

It's gotten so the ivy-colored walls are crumbling and not worth entering into.

Whether liberal or conservative, whether Christian or communist, they recognize their enemy: Ayn Rand.