Recent Stories Illustrating ‘Education’ Can Be Worse Than Ignorance

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.” —GK Chesterton 

In case you were blissfully unaware lately of the perverted craziness increasingly dominating American educational institutions, I bring you three reminders that sometimes “education” is worse than ignorance. The Founding Fathers, who dreamed of a classical education for everyone, would be crushed.

First, there’s Harvard University, which inadvertently villainized homosexuality while trying to blaspheme Jesus Christ in a musical. The Bible explicitly condemns homosexuality as a sin which, if unrepented, merits damnation (see 1 Cor. 6:9-10 and Gen. 19), but Harvard University seems determined to go to Hell in a handbasket.

“Harvard University’s Agassiz Theater put on a musical titled ‘Iscariot’ that portrays Judas Iscariot as a gay individual who falls in love with Jesus…Producer of the play, Sophie Kim, described the musical to The Harvard Crimson as a ‘heretical gaysian love story.”

Then there’s this load of excrement from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), which is asking its transgender and “non-binary” students to journal about their bathroom experiences in order to help the school make its restrooms more “inclusive.” The only possible advantage I see is if the university accidentally turns up a sexual assaulter. Loudoun County schools could sure have used that sort of evidence about its skirt-wearing male assaulter.

Meanwhile, Syracuse University is training a generation of ignorant Marxists:

“Syracuse University’s (SU) student-led news outlet, The Daily Orange, recently published an article titled ‘The Seated Lincoln statue does not represent SU’s current ethics’ which calls for the removal of a statue of Abraham Lincoln.”

Zaffino is also apparently uninterested in mentioning that Abraham Lincoln fought a long and bloody war to end slavery, called former slave and civil rights activist Frederick Douglass his “friend,” said Douglass’s opinion was more valuable to him than any other man’s in America, and was assassinated specifically for supporting full citizenship for black Americans (few academics seem to remember that hundreds of thousands of black and white Americans died to end slavery). I’d be interested to know just what Zaffino has sacrificed for justice, freedom, and equality.