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angry parents complain if their children choose to study Mandarin, or Chinese history. I sent him to get an education, not to be brainwashed. Each time it makes the college paper, then the news; a congressman or sometimes a senator delivers an impassioned speech about universities as incubators of indoctrination;
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This is also pretty relevant with a) right-wing populists blaming universities for one-sided education (aka teaching proven ideas and empirical facts) and b) so many universities these days being (partly) funded by corporations, with entire study programs focusing not on academic values, but on corporate ideology... So there actually is a problem with indoctrination at universities, but it's the other way round and nobody seems to really care about that, because the claims like you can read them in this passage from the book, are usually so much louder.
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