Targeting “the students’ blank minds” as a fresh canvas to paint for them a worldview that garners support for socialism.
A number of colleges have set out to prepare incoming freshmen for an advanced education by assigning books for them to read over the summer. But according to a National Association of Scholars investigation, what students are getting instead is an indoctrination into the school’s social justice agenda.
The communications director for NAS, David Randall, detailed the findings in a report over at Breitbart.com. His organization is able to show that in at least 350 schools, the “advanced readings” are mostly tales of overcoming some kind of social injustice and are written on nothing greater than a ninth-grade level. These summer reading programs are intended to bring the first-year students a shared experience and also give them an introduction to college-level reading so they are prepared for the new difficulty level. But as Randall explains, those purposes are often wrecked from the start by the books that are chosen.
He lays out the most common “formula” these colleges are using in choosing texts:
[A]n uplifting tale told by a young hero who faces down social injustice, triumphs over adversity, and inspires us to do our part as well. It must be told in words a ninth grader can understand.
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