Should universities teach students what to think or how to think?
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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The University of Chicago graduate English program will only accept students willing to work in black studies.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm angry at what's going on at some American universities and colleges. |
| 0:06.0 | The faculty is exploiting their position not to teach students how to think, but to tell them what to believe, to tell them what to believe. |
| 0:13.7 | To tell them what to think at the University of Chicago, |
| 0:17.4 | the faculty has determined what they believe |
| 0:21.0 | about colonialism and exploitation at the University of San Francisco State, |
| 0:27.0 | they have decided that it's okay for students to be educated by a convicted |
| 0:31.0 | a convicted terrorist but not by the mayor of Jerusalem. This is not |
| 0:36.2 | education. This is propaganda and it poses a great danger to the future of |
| 0:41.7 | America. I'm Alan Bershooz and this is the Dershoo. |
| 0:45.6 | Do you know what's going on at the colleges and universities that your children may be attending, your nephews may be attending, your |
| 0:55.8 | brothers and sisters may be attending. |
| 0:58.4 | Let me give you some disturbing information about what's going on at least at certain colleges and universities today. |
| 1:06.0 | You know, I taught at Harvard for 50 years. |
| 1:09.0 | During that 50 year period, I tried my best never to teach students what to think. |
| 1:15.7 | I tried hard to teach them how to think, how to analyze issues, how to come to their own conclusions. A professor is not entitled to make students |
| 1:27.3 | believe certain things. Students have a right to come to a university with a set of beliefs, they have a right to leave the university |
| 1:35.2 | with that set of beliefs or any other set of beliefs. |
| 1:38.4 | Based on their own thinking, their own intuition, their own values, it's not the job of faculty members to propagandize |
| 1:47.0 | well let me tell you what's going on at two universities in the news today |
| 1:52.0 | one of them a private university the other republics in the of Chicago, which according to reports in newspapers today, have decided that the English |
| 2:06.6 | department is now going to be dedicated to a particular political point of view. |
| 2:13.7 | The professors all got together, and I'm quoting now, stood with the Black Lives Matter movement |
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