War Against Schools, Critical Thinking: Thom Hartmann 📚

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How the Right-Wing is Trying to Turn Public Education Into Corporate Obedience Schools, Jim Hightower, Sept. 14, 2023.
https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/how-the-right-wing-is-trying-to-turn#details
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Hightower, The right wing’s shriveled view of an education, Nov. 16, 2023.
.. The humanities are priceless, by Jim Hightower — OtherWords

The far-out right-wing’s latest political ploy takes extremism to the extreme. Escalating their divisive series of “culture wars” — banning books, suppressing women’s rights, whitewashing history, demonizing teachers, etc. — their next idea is to declare war on ideas themselves. Specifically, they’re going after state university programs that teach creative arts and social studies, including history, languages, music, civics, literature, economics, theology, and other courses in the humanities that explore ideas, foster free-thinking, and expand enlightenment. We can’t have that, can we?

Thus, GOP lawmakers in North Carolina, for example, are eliminating funding for top humanities professors in their universities...
https://www.thepanamanews.com/2023/11/hightower-the-right-wings-shriveled-view-of-an-education/