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The Dershow

Should universities teach students what to think or how to think?

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K 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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