Hillsdale’s Mission and the Politics of Freedom

[Vambram]

Intentionally, to avoid complying with Title IX:

Title IX provides: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

What are you implying?

 

[Vambram]

I don't agree to be agreeable about hillsdale's propagandistic "history".

To you, it is propaganda. To others. perhaps not.

 

[Bradskii]

What are you implying?

I didn't imply anything. I literally said it. They reject government funds so that they don't have to comply with Title IX.

 

[Pommer]

It starts with a gentle notice to you, their dear newsletter reader, that they are not as portrayed (political and cultural activists) just scholars and students of classical learning in the letters and arts.

Next it proceeds to explain why it is necessary for their small college to engage in political and cultural activism against the oppressive world. Crescendo-ing a couple of times with tales of oppression from the domination of the cultural, political, and governmental forces (what less lettered people might call "the deep state") that would intrude on their idyllic vision of the past. (What less lettered people might call "the deep state".)

Finally it expresses how the college will fight the approach of modernity and influence others by sending out 6.5 million copies of this newsletter that you might join in their crusade.

If you’re not a diplomat, you should look into becoming one.

 

[Pommer]

What are you implying?

The fine educators at Hillsdale don’t have to kowtow to Big Government and can teach whomever they want and not educate anyone they don’t want.
”Freedom”.
It’s curious why they’re forgo all of the Pell Grants and student loan money go just to be able to teach what they want, (which isn’t all that much different than what they already teach), unless it’s to skirt Title IX?

 

[Hans Blaster]

If you’re not a diplomat, you should look into becoming one.

I'm open to be Ambassador and Minster Plenipotentiary to the Holy See. That would be fun.

 

[Desk trauma]

I'm open to be Ambassador and Minster Plenipotentiary to the Holy See. That would be fun.

I suspect dead naming would suddenly not be acceptable to those currently scoffing at it.

 

[Hans Blaster]

I suspect dead naming would suddenly not be acceptable to those currently scoffing at it.

I don't know why Señor Bergoglio would have a problem.

 

[crixus]

Years ago I signed up for a so-called free Constitution 101 online course from Hillsdale College and they pummeled me with emails asking for money even before I began the course. Because of that I decided not to take it and told them so, but the emails kept coming. I would have given them some $$ after I'd taken the course, but I didn't like their aggressive tactics from the start and that's why I unsubscribed.

 

[essentialsaltes]

I find it very amusing that you believe Hillsdale College is an institution that is dangerous to American democracy and freedom. Hillsdale College has free courses

So does the Confucius Institute.

What do you call a free curriculum from an organization with a vested interest in Chinese communism?
What do you call a free curriculum from an organization with a vested interest in Christian nationalism?

 

[Vambram]

It is only your opinion that Hillsdale College has a vested in Christian nationalism.

 

[essentialsaltes]

It is only your opinion that Hillsdale College has a vested in Christian nationalism.

Not just my opinion.

And more neutral critics also have things to say about these free curricula:

It’s rare for a college to provide so many resources for K-12 education, according to Chester Finn Jr., an assistant secretary of education in the Reagan administration, who holds positions at multiple right-leaning think tanks. And Hillsdale’s teaching model provides something that conservatives are seeking for their children, Finn said, “which is both here’s what they should learn, and let’s shield them from what they shouldn’t learn.”

As Hillsdale’s footprint has grown, so have protests over its influence. Educators and liberal-leaning parents object to Hillsdale’s curriculum, saying it inserts a right-wing worldview into K-12 schools. The American Historical Association has accused the 1776 Curriculum of downplaying racism, the Great Migration and the power of the Ku Klux Klan.

“What they also are trying to do is replace an approach to teaching that teaches students how to think with an approach that teaches the students what to think.”

“That’s a pretty political and distorted view of American history,” said Sean Wilentz, a Princeton history professor ... “But they see history as politics by other means. That’s really the core of it.”

 

[Vambram]

Andy Spears

Andy Spears, Ph.D., is the publisher of Tennessee Education Report.

progressive.org

I have zero doubts that Andy Spear's opinions have a progressive left-wing bias. as for the rest of the critics you cited, they are also more than likely very liberal and/or progressive in their political as well as social point of views.

 

[essentialsaltes]

I have zero doubts that

And you put zero effort into considering information from outside your bubble.

But at least you have tacitly admitted that just because something is free doesn't mean it is automatically beneficial.

 

[Pommer]

And you put zero effort into considering information from outside your bubble.

But at least you have tacitly admitted that just because something is free doesn't mean it is automatically beneficial.

But Christian altruism is commanded, therefore necessary.
One can be sure that it wasn’t commanded, we wouldn’t see any.

Communistic altruism, is just there to convert people to their way of thinking.
Probably

 

[ThatRobGuy]

“What they also are trying to do is replace an approach to teaching that teaches students how to think with an approach that teaches the students what to think.”

Are there any schools left (public or private) that haven't succumbed to this? (to at least some degree)

Obviously it's much more obvious and pervasive with organizations like the one in question (where they clearly have an agenda-driven platform), but it seems like some other organizations aim for a similar goal (the goal being "make the voters of tomorrow vote the way I do today"), just using a different pathway to get there.

For instance, if there were two schools, and one puts in their mission statement:
"We'll make sure your kids think Fords are better than Chevys"
and the other simply opts to stack their staff and curriculum with Pro-Ford viewpoints and perspectives that would steer someone in that direction...

It becomes something of a distinction without a difference.


2-year vocational training needs to make a comeback in our country.
A) Simply for financial reasons (the debt people end up with is staggering)
B) The whole purpose of what college was supposed to be for has been somewhat perverted. Most kids go to college because we tell kids "You go to college so you can get a good job", when that's not really what the original point of a liberal arts education was supposed to be. It was supposed to be to pursue interests for "leisure" of sorts. Now it just produces deeply in-debt people who leave with the impression that society owes them a career in whatever thing they're passionate about.