Dueling Commencement Speeches Week in Higher Education
Your weekly report on campus news.
When it comes to commencement speeches, some people are more welcome than others.
- Will Ferrell Uses Commencement Speech at USC to Bash Trump
- Texas Southern U. Cancels John Cornyn Commencement Address
- Notre Dame Fine With Students’ Plan to Protest Mike Pence Speech
Some people can get away with saying anything.
- Elizabeth Warren Plays Government Outsider on Student Debt in Speech at UMass
- Texas A&M Won’t Fire Prof Who Called for Killing White People
- U. Hawaii Prof Demands White Men Quit Their Jobs
Have you noticed that higher education is now setting back race relations?
- Nooses and Bananas Appear at American University, Students Issue Demands
- White Students at American U. Barred From Entering ‘Sanctuary’ for Black Students
All leftism, all the time.
- U. Colorado Sets Up Special ‘Social Justice’ Dorm
- U. Illinois Spends $60 Million a Year on Diversity
- Columbia University Will Have Six ‘Multicultural Graduation Ceremonies’
Free speech updates.
- Northwestern U. Students Shut Down Talk by Immigration Officer
- Middlebury Announces More Unspecified Discipline for Students Over Mob Attack
Shocker.
Of course they do.
Voices of reason.
- Prof: Students Who Are ‘Traumatized’ by College Need Professional Help
- Prof: To Stop Campus Craziness, Stop Donating Money
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Comments
It seems the Comprachicos have won.
“They do not place a child into a vase to adjust his body to its contours. They place him into a “Progressive” nursery school to adjust him to society.
The Progressive nursery schools start a child’s education at the age of three. Their view of a child’s needs is militantly anti-cognitive and anti-conceptual. A child of that age, they claim, is too young for cognitive training; his natural desire is not to learn, but to play. The development of his conceptual faculty, they claim, is an unnatural burden that should not be imposed on him; he should be free to act on his spontaneous urges and feelings in order to express his subconscious desires, hostilities and fears. The primary goal of a Progressive nursery school is “social adjustment”; this is to be achieved by means of group activities, in which a child is expected to develop both “self-expression’ (in the form of anything he might feel like doing) and conformity to the group.”
Written August-December 1970.
Published in The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, 1970
I’m beginning to hate “Prom-And-Fighting-Over-Graduation-Ceremonies” season.