All schools serve the societies in which they’re embedded—authoritarian schools serve authoritarian systems, apartheid schools serve an apartheid society, and so on. Practically all schools want their students to study hard, stay away from drugs, do their homework, and so on. In fact none of these features distinguishes schools in the old Soviet Union or fascist Germany from schools in a democracy, and in fact those schools produced some excellent scientists and athletes and musicians and so on. They also produced obedience and conformity, moral blindness and easy agreement, obtuse patriotism and a willingness to follow orders right into the furnaces. In a democracy one would expect something different—a commitment to free inquiry, questioning, and participation; a push for access and equity; a curriculum that encouraged free thought and independent judgment; a standard of full recognition of the humanity of each individual. In other words, social justice.
I’m basically a conservative, but such harsh critics set a poor emample for the younger generations. Why don’t post ideas that you are in favor of if you must trydiscourage those who have an open mind ? Simply degrading the liberal approach makes us conservatives look shrill and morally weak.
Won’t You Please Write to Chicago (as in UIC where billy sucks the tit of your taxes)
Right wing students minds are gagged
By slick billy and his hag
Won’t you please write to Chicago
To have diveristy ring
In UIC’s hoary walls
The truth Billy stalls
Won’t you please write to Chicago,
“curators, bring some sanity”
Willy can change the world
He’ll rearrange the world
He’s lying
If you disagree with him
You’re flunking
If you disagree with her
You’re flunking
Bigger and bigger lies
Tenure and blind support he needs them
Curators open up your eyes!