Education for Liberation Network Harms Youth
August 30, 2018
Lew today has a link to a social justice booklet in the Portland, Oregon schools. Its leftist purpose is clear: to promote leftist ideology through public schools. The universities are already largely captured by leftists.
The publisher of the booklet is the Education for Liberation Network. What does it stand for?
“The Education for Liberation Network is a national coalition of teachers, community activists, researchers, youth and parents who believe a good education should teach people—particularly low-income youth and youth of color—how to understand and challenge the injustices their communities face.” It also says it wants to “build a movement to develop and promote education as a tool for liberation.”
This sounds like the Chinese Communist Youth Movement. Young people were prominent in Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The aim is an American leftist revolution.
The goal is not education in the common sense. They are not promoting the 3 R’s, which is what people need to get ahead. They are not promoting hard work and ethical behavior, which is what people need to get ahead. They are not promoting marketable skills. They are not promoting character-building. They are promoting politics, based upon ideas of race, income and social injustice. That is why it’s called Education for Liberation.
Education into liberation politics is a dead end. Producing Red Guards is a dead end. It doesn’t put bread on the table. It does a disservice to youth, and particularly the youth that this group emphasizes, “low-income youth and youth of color.” It directs their time and energy in fruitless directions. Youth is not going to get ahead by telling themselves that they are disadvantaged, plundered by colonialists of the past, burdened by imperialists, and savaged by oppressors. Discovering racism in every nook and cranny of a word, a glance and a paycheck is not going to cut it. Looking for insults based upon sexual gradations cannot be a way of life or support a civilization. If revolutionary youth or their communist leaders took over, paradise would not burgeon. Bread would not suddenly appear.
Youth, including poor youth and youth of color, have a tremendous amount of material goods to lose through liberation politics. Bread covers a lot of ground. These goods cannot continue to appear without constantly being replenished. Were it not for our forefathers in past generations, imperfect as they were, we’d be scrambling to produce crops, dying in childbirth and foraging for fish and game.
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