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Breakpoint

Universities Are Not Educating

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Ignorance on college campuses is on full display with protesters admitting they don't know what they're protesting.

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With a

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look at culture from a Christian worldview. I'm John Stone Street with the point. The word

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education comes from a Latin word which means to lead out. Of what? Well, to lead

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out of ignorance, frankly, the ineffectiveness of much of our higher education.

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To do that is right now on full display

0:17.4

in the anti-Israeli protest on elite college campuses.

0:20.4

Many of our so-called best and brightest,

0:22.3

both faculty and students, support Hamas, a terrorist

0:25.1

organization whose charter calls for the extermination of Jews.

0:28.5

Pamphlets at these rallies tell students that freedom for Palestine means death to America.

0:33.0

And many students have embraced the sentiment without even thinking what that might mean for them personally.

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And they, of course, demonstrate their tolerance by telling Jewish students to go back to Poland,

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making human chains to block them from campus,

0:44.4

and in some cases physically assaulting them.

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And what might be the ultimate example of how well are modern educational systems doing?

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Two Columbia students who joined a protest at

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NYU were asked what the school was doing that they were actually protesting.

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One said she didn't know, the other said she wished she were better educated.

1:01.3

Well the rest of us wish that too. I'm John Stone Street.

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