Commentary: Colleges are being degraded into tools of narrow indoctrination
by Adam Carrington, Chicago Tribune
Jun 06, 2022
3 minutes
We live in dangerous times on campus. Too many universities possess a view of education so warped as to not deserve the long-hallowed name of learning. It denies students’ full humanity, relegates faculty to narrowly specialized indoctrination and leaves our society culturally poorer in its destructive wake.
One needn’t look far for examples. We have Nicholas Meriwether — a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in southern Ohio. Meriwether faced attacks from school administrators for not using preferred pronouns in class as opposed to the biological ones that have defined sexual distinctions for millenniums. Only
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