Part One: Grand Jury Presentment of "Problems in Higher Education"
Portions of the Presentment of the Grand Jury for the Eleventh Judicial District of Iowa follow, with words added for clarification in brackets. Supplemental ideas are italicized.
Power to Capture a Nation
Through Indoctrination of Its Youth
For many years, psychologists and educators have recognized the processes by which thought and behavioral patterns acquired in youth become the basis for adult motivation. In modern times, thoughtful observers have become progressively aware that moral, social, and political concepts implanted during the time of mental immaturity not only participate in the conduct later in life, but, once acquired, become dominant and often unalterable in the adult. Thus, captive audiences of immature minds provide powerful and much prized forums for anti-Judeo-Christian, anti-American indoctrination.
Educational environments, left unguarded [by politically active citizens and wise legislators], can easily be captured by alien militants and, in due course, transformed into climates of unquestioned social and political opinion.
Dr. I. L. Kandell, a refugee from Romania and professor at Columbia University, aptly lamented education devoid of established knowledge, calling it "the most Communist feature of the Communist Revolution and the most Nazi expression of the National Socialist Revolution."
A modern term for the atheistic-secular worldview is "political correctness." Opposing points of view, namely morality, religious liberty, traditional marriage, and the political principles upon which America has prospered, are censored from textbooks and teacher presentations.
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