Each fall, nearly two million American students will leave for college for the very first time. Their education will cost $12,000 a year for a public university and up to $50,000 for a private one. Scholarships and grants reduce the cost for most families, but still, the Wall Street Journal reports that the average student leaves college with $23,186 in debt.
Nationwide, the total cost for this transaction is somewhere between 25 and 40 billion dollars per year.
At least families are getting their money’s worth.
Or not.A recent study confirms what many parents have long suspected: going to college can make kids forget what’s important and embrace values that are counter to what they learned growing up.
Before I share this study’s results, let me say this to parents: leftist professors don’t feel sorry for you. As far as they’re concerned, you’ve been oppressing the masses to get that money anyway, so it’s deliciously ironic that you not only turn your children over to the indoctrinators, but that you fork over 50k to 200k and for the privilege of doing so.
Don’t take my word for it. Here’s what the late Richard Rorty, one of the most prominent philosophers of the 20th century, said on the subject:
“I, like most Americans who teach humanities or social science in colleges and universities … try to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic, religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own … The fundamentalist parents of our fundamentalist students think that the entire ‘American liberal establishment’ is engaged in a conspiracy. The parents have a point … [W]e are going to go right on trying to discredit you in the eyes of your children, trying to strip your fundamentalist religious community of dignity, trying to make your views seem silly rather than discussable. We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours … I think those students are lucky to find themselves under the benevolent Herrschaft [domination] of people like me, and to have escaped the grip of their frightening, vicious, dangerous parents …”[1] [editor’s note: sorry for all the ellipses, but it’s hard to summarize Rorty’s windblown rhetoric].
When it comes to reshaping values, liberal universities know precisely what they’re doing. And the reality is that about four out of five students walk away from their Christian faith by the time they are in their twenties.[2]
The Indoctrination Plan:
What Your Child Will and Will Not Learn
What your child won’t learn at college: a sense of citizenship. In February, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute released its annual report entitled, “The Shaping of the American Mind.” ISI researchers studied students’ knowledge of basic citizenship questions, along with 39 issue-based propositions and found that college graduates are dangerously ignorant of basic civics.
For example, fewer than one in two college graduates know that the phrase “We hold these truths to be self evident…” is from the Declaration of Independence (10% actually think it is from the Communist Manifesto).
What your child will learn at college: liberal radicalism. According to ISI, college graduates are significantly MORE likely to believe in abortion on demand and same sex marriage, and significantly LESS likely to believe that the Bible is the word of God, that prayer should be allowed in schools, and that anyone can succeed in America with hard work and perseverance.
The Transformation Plan:
Being Confidently Prepared Rather than Caught Off Guard
Obviously not all colleges are destructive. There are even a handful of great ones (I would humbly suggest that the one where I teach—Bryan College—is one of the excellent few).
But most Christian parents feel hamstrung. They are concerned for their kids but also realize that, with few exceptions, young people have little chance of becoming leaders without a college degree. They want their children to prepare for positively influencing the culture, but to not have their faith shredded in the process.
There is a solution and it is available now. Please, if you have a college-bound student, listen carefully to what I’m about to tell you. This is important even if your child is going to a “safe” college (some so-called “Christian” colleges are actually better at convincing kids to walk away from their faith than some secular colleges).
A two-week Summit Ministries course is a must. This summer. Find out more here.
At Summit, students ages 16–21 gain the confidence they need to understand and defend an intelligent biblical worldview. They join a vast network of mentors whose books, writings and personal encouragement sharpen them for life-long leadership. Shoulder to shoulder they and their new-found friends stand strong together.
The 12-day experience for your son or daughter is $895 for the tuition, room, board and activities. That’s far less than most private camps because it is heavily subsidized by donors. And when you consider that the Summit protects against a destructive influence on campus, it’s a small price to pay. Considering the value of your child’s soul, it’s priceless.
Now Is Not the Time for Shortcuts
There is much at stake. Having your child read an apologetics book or go to a weekend conference is great, but it’s not the same as a two-week Summit experience, and here’s why:
1. Summit helps students “own” what they learn. Over the course of 12 days, students are able to form questions and interact with top Christian professors, mentors, and classmates. As they become comfortable, they open up in small groups, around the meal tables and in open forums with speakers.
2. Summit prepares students to think through issues as adults. Summit asks students to forsake adolescence and step up into mature adulthood. Over the course of 12 days students come to believe that it can actually be done.
3. Summit breaks the stranglehold of negative peer pressure. Young adults seldom attempt to rise above what their peers think they can be. Summit students learn how to reverse this pressure and support one another in successfully thinking and living Christianly.
4. Summit helps students form relationships with expert mentors. At Summit, students spend 12 days with experts who have the depth of experience needed to delve deeply into the complex challenges those students face. These experts are specially selected based on their ability to communicate effectively with students.
5. Summit affirms and supports parents’ roles and Christian values. Kids are always asking, “Who else says so besides Mom and Dad?” At Summit, students are encouraged to honor their parents and be reconciled to them. This helps moms and dads strengthen their relationship before their sons and daughters leave for college, which is crucial.
Where Christian Leaders Send Their Own Children for Training
Summit is not a miracle cure. But for 47 years it’s been a trusted source for preparing students to be the kind of leaders who shape culture, rather than who are shaped by it. That’s why evangelical leaders such as James Dobson and Josh McDowell endorse it so enthusiastically—and why they sent their children to Summit before college; there simply is no substitute for the excellent training and mentoring Dr. Noebel and his staff provide.
I believe in the Summit. In fact I am planning to speak at every Summit Ministries session in the U.S. this summer in Colorado, Virginia, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
Summit enrollment is limited by space. Most sessions do fill up, but you can download an application at www.summit.org. Scholarships are available for those in financial need.
Remember: before college, Summit. Please forward this to any parent who may benefit from knowing about it.
Endnotes:- Richard Rorty, “Universality and Truth,” in Rorty and His Critics, ed. Robert B. Brandom,(Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), 21–22. [↩]
- George Barna, “Twentysomethings struggle to find their place in Christian churches” and Ken Ham and Britt Beemer,Already Gone: Why Your Kids Will Quit Church and What You Can Do to Stop It(Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2009), 24. [↩]
Dr. Jeff Myers is founder and president of Passing the Baton International. Jeff speaks to tens of thousands each year on worldview and leadership issues. This article was taken by permission from Jeff’s E-Newsletter “Get Ready to Lead.” To subscribe, please visit www.passingthebaton.org. For more information on Summit Ministries, please visit www.summit.org.
U.S. schoolteachers now instruct their youngest pupils to sing songs about him. Robin Hood he is not, but he does take money from Citizens to give it to others. His name is Barack Obama. One need only look to the White House to confirm how a promulgated ideology (socialism) can influence a child and destroy a nation.
Obama a red diaper baby inherently does not represent Americans, but a Marxist ideology that mandates forcing socialism on U.S. Citizens, even at the costs of destroying the economy and our Constitution. Obama appears intended to weaken or kill the spirit of individualism that made America strong.
If Obama-ism is not stopped it will spread like a disease infecting our youth, inspiring a form of Marxist-socialism that will destroy the quality of life for Americans. Let there be no doubt Patriots are at War with those in our nation that intend a rein of RED TERROR on the principals that made America great.
Obama Disclose Act Will Choke First Amendment:
The Neomarxist behind the Obama/FTC intend to drown out the voice of America with Obama/Marxist propaganda, enforcing new regulations that will cripple bloggers and other alternative media from disseminating information, free speech that grass-roots among other organizations depend on to make informed decisions. Obama’s support of the DISCLOSE Act confirmed what many Americans already believed; that Obama and certain Democrats in Congress intend to strangle the flow of information. If Obama and his leftists associations get their way, our Children will be brainwashed by Obama’s one-sided propaganda at school, through Obama controlled Radio, TV and Obama media policies that restrict the free flow of information. Historically when communists attempted or took over a country, one of their first steps was to control the media and all forms of public communications to control Civilian populations.
When Russia took over Hungary, it immediately took control of the Radio stations to thwart Citizen resistance and to psychologically control the People.
Considering the Obama administration’s obsession with controlling all media, one might ask, are some of the persons inside and outside U.S. Government working with the Obama administration to push the Disclose Act and other censorship regulations, involved in causes that promulgate overthrow of the United States? While some in the Obama Government say they support dismantling capitalism, brick by brick, does their endgame call for destruction of the United States? If it does, what should Americans do to stop it? Does the Obama administration’s proposed censorship of free speech e.g., the Disclose Act threaten National Security? In other countries where members of political parties and ideological extremists attempted or succeeded in this kind of forced censorship, forbidding Citizens to receive information, they have been arrested for treason among other crimes.
The Obama administration appears intended to curtail Americans’ right to know, restrict American’s right to communicate via the Internet and the Obama administration admits they want to pay writers in newspapers and other media to covertly propagandize their point of view. Is this not treason? Top CZAR Cass Sunstein prepared a 2008 paper that proposed spying on Americans, infiltrating groups and organizations to obstruct Free Speech, disrupt the exchange of ideas and disseminate false information to neutralize Americans that might question government. See: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=121884
all students should become ceo's politicians and radio talk show host, we will then be forced to take in every illegal alien we can get our hands on to do the other jobs no one is left to do and all the Americans will live high on the hog.I mean who wouldn't live well on a ceo's salary or a politicians salary with a golden parachute?Even radio talk show hosts make good and they get paid well for their propaganda.
We raised six children….the one with the most education to the highest level, is now a broken person and we do
not know where that one will go ….the first thing to go was her Christian values and they were replaced by
left-wing socialist followings, and this also was including a lot of use of drugs, totally dropping out of our lives
as parents; so I say and have always believed that a young person is better not to enter college for these types
of things to be indoctrinated with; it is much better to go to a college that includes high expectations for a moral
honest method of approaching life and a future. Many of these college students live in the now and are rather
narcisistic in nature, instead of thinking outside and ahead of self…God teaches us that we are to deny self and
it works…truly works for mans good and our future good as well.
The only way to Silence the Loud Mouthed Disrespectful Leftist Minority in this nation is to Present them with Facts, Truth, Decency and Integrity.
Of course all these qualities are lacking with those on the Left who are being lead by Narcissitic Serial Liars such as Obama who preys on their Illiteracy and Ignorance.
The Truth Will Set You Free, and That Is why Obama, His Cronies in the Congress, In Hollywood and the MSM are doing everything in their power to Squash the Truth About Who and What They Are. They are attempting to Replace Truth with Their Lies, and the Leftists are now becoming Angry and Desperate because the Majority of Americans Have Woke UP and Are Not LIstening to or Believing Any More of Their Lies.
All the while when Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, Beck, Levine, and others were Exposing the Truth About Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, the MSM and leftist politicians ran cover for Obama and Lied Through Their Teeth, while Bashing Hannity, Limbaugh and others who were Telling The Truth About Obama and his Beliefs and Past.
Part 1
YOU ARE RIGHT ONE THOUSAND TIMES OVER !!! COMMON EVERYONE READ THE "TRUTH"
Sending children to many public schools is a form of child abuse and neglect. The schools are purposely dumbing down and brainwashing our children, which seriously affects their intellectual and emotional growth as their minds are filled with irrational, dysfucntional and negative beliefs, which effect all their later development as more and more irrational beliefs get built into their mnds based on the arlier programming by the public schools and the teachings of the incompetent and unethical teachers and administratros.
What they are doing to our children in a large majority of our public schools is Dumbing Them Down and Brainwashing them into becoming Dependent Little Socialists, and are being taught to Praise Obama in Song and Dance. This insanity must be stopped. The only way to stop it is to Have These Incompetent, Un-Professional and Un-Ethical Teachers removed from the classrooms when they are found to be Indcotrinating and Brainwashing our children's young and impressionable minds.
Several years ago I informed our children's school that we were taking them on a trip for two days. One teacher sent back a note saying we had "their permission" to do so. I wrote them back saying, "I was not asking your permission, I was courteously informing you as to why my children wouldn't be in school those two days." I thought they were teaching our children. They thought we were raising their students.
For all the pragmatic attempts at "fixes" mentioned, the one thing that our country desparately needs is for us all to humble ourselves under God's mighty hand and beg for undeserved mercy for our countless gross and blasphemous sins against Him in thought, word and deed daily for centuries. He owes us nothing but eternal fire and damnation for our incalculable evils, and He would do us no wrong if that's all we got, but may He bring a spirit of repentance on all, especially beginning with His Church, that we beg for His mercy and turn our backs on our sins and self and seek His face alone. Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy!
Summit seems to rank up there with Hillsdale College and The Mises Institute as worthy choices of where to send tomorrow's leaders.
I have one concern with Summit's study abroad program though. Oxford is the home of the Rhodes Scholarship program, which has become THE premier New World Order training camp for one world government and should be avoided by parents who wish their children to keep their faith and the Founding values of our Constitutional form of government. Like some other "worthy" institutions, the Rhodes program has been infiltrated and taken over by the radical left. One "outstanding" alumni is a member of the treasonous Council On Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, and Bilderburger Group as well as being a former president who had trouble keeping his pants on.
Summit should reevaluate it's participation in programs with Oxford. There are other institutions that may be more in line with Summit's values.
Abolishing the U.S. Department of Education needs to be Plank 1 of any Future Conservative Campaign at every level of government. It has been through this agency that the Leftists Completely Hijacked the Public Education System. The National Teacher Unions, which are Marxist, were given this Department as A Gift by President Jimmy Carter as he promised when the National Teacher Unions Supported him in the 1976 election. The official National Teacher Union Motto back then was: "Subvert From Within and CYA." Their purpose was to use the Public Ecucation System to Destroy the Values of the USA and our Great Traditions and History and Economic System.
And, today, our public education system is rated at #28 in the world for Academic Outcomes. In 1966, we were in the top 3 best. Case Closed. Socialism Destroys All.
part 2
All the while when Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, Beck, Levine, and others were Exposing the Truth About Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign, the MSM and leftist politicians ran cover for Obama and Lied Through Their Teeth, while Bashing Hannity, Limbaugh and others who were Telling The Truth About Obama and his Beliefs and Past.
Now, the Truth Is Out about Obama, His Past, His Present, and His Plans for America, and no matter how often he now gets on TV and Reads his Prepared Propaganda from his Teleprompter, and no matter how Many Times the MSM and Hollywood perverts Re-Tell the Lies and Mock those who Oppose Obama and his Policies, The Truth Is Out Of The Bottle, and the Vast Majority of Americans are onto Obama, and the Lies Do Not Work anymore. That is why Obama and his cadre of fools and subversives are angry and that is why they will now stoop to every trick they can to try and sabotage their opponents. We have to Beware of their Trickery which may include Inciting Riots in an effort to discredit their opponents who are Truth and Honesty.
The email link sent to me read:
Eucation will cost $12,000 a year for a public university and up to $50,000 for a private one. Scholarships and grants reduce the cost for most families, but still, the Wall Street Journalreports that the average student leaves college with $23,186 in debt.
"Eucation"? Of all posts to have a typo in…
i am delighted that is all you find wrong with it. Wish there were more "believers" like you.
Maybe I am an odball in the education environment. I teach Math in a community college and am very conservative in nature. I am in the minority here and feel that more individuals with conservative ideas need to enter education. Our education system needs to be overhauled beginning in the elementary grades. We need to teach and encourage moral and conservative values while (pardon the terminology) exposing our children to the outrageous liberal attitudes and beliefs. I feel that the more they know and understand the more our children will "choose" the correct and right path. I see many young people who go wild after high school because they did not have the moral guidance as they were growing up
Robert, I couldn't agree more. It appears we are two (2) oddballs, as I have gotten the message from so many Christian ministers and leaders who constantly preach we should keep our children as far away from public / government schools as possible. I believe it is our solemn duty to take responsibility for our schools and assert a positive influence on the local level as we can, ensuring that our own children and others have this advantage of truth vs. lies in their education. We cannot isolate our children nor ourselves from evil. What we must do is prepare them to deal with it. These schools are as much ours as the godless people in society, if not more so. Had I not had Godly teachers and wholesome examples to follow through school, my life may have turned out very differently. I thank God for that, and all my teachers for their dedication and sacrifice. Robert