Best of the week entry 5

Also comes from Al Mohler and takes a chilling look at the agenda behind secular higher educations, “And Then They Are All Mine” — The Real Agenda of Some College Professors :

The college experience is, of necessity, a time for the development of critical thinking. It is a season of tremendous intellectual formation that produces lasting effects. Students should learn the disciplines of critical thinking and analysis, and in this transitional period of life, they will determine whether they will hold to the beliefs and commitments of their parents.

But they should not be subjected to the ideological indoctrination and intellectual condescension that is found in far too many classrooms and on far too many campuses. If nothing else, these remarkable statements of professorial intention should awaken both students and parents to what passes for education within much of higher education. The open hostility and contempt toward Christianity and Christian convictions is truly horrifying.

And then they are mine. It is hard to imagine words more alarming than those.

This is true in secondary school as well as colleges and universities.

I am quite convinced that very little that goes on in the education machinery of America has anything to do with education and everything to do with what is being described here: frankly an attempt to indoctrinate children. Of course these "educators" don't see this as indoctrination, they see it as providing an alternate worldview from what has been pounded into these poor kids by their parents but whether a parent or an educator, older adults in positions of authority are going to have a disproportionate impact on the attitudes and worldview of children and young adults.

I am not suggesting that all teachers and college profs are part of a sinister conspiracy against Christianity but I am suggesting that the thinkers of the movement, the ideologues, certainly are. I am also clearly here and elsewhere asking some hard questions about the whole college culture that American Christians have bought into as the ticket to middle-class comfort.