Duke University offers Activism Workshop! What is going on???

[righteousdude2]

Duke University is sponsoring a workshop for the purpose of training students to engage in activism against President Trump’s administration.

LGBTQA activist Mandy Carter will lead the February 15 event, which is titled “Ideas for Activism in the Time of Trump."

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/09/d...udents-for-anti-trump-activism/#ixzz4YHyKThob

If you need to better understand why America is in a spiritual, social and moral free all, death spin ... you don't have to look any further then our INSTITUTIONS of higher learning.

Do you agree with public or private American universities/colleges being permitted to provide classes like these, especially since most students are attending school on loans. FEDERALLY FUNDED, FEDERALLY BACKED loans.

Should courses teaching and promoting anarchy and, or civil unrest be declared not valid, and ineligible for financial support. I ask this because while in college, there were courses that didn't meet university core curriculum standards, and wouldn't be counted towatds graduation.

 

[Crabtownboy]

What's going on?

Education.

 

[righteousdude2]

What's going on?

Education.

Good morning my liberal brother if Christ! Hey, did you even bother to read the link? It is a college sponsored workshop.

 

[HankD]

Good morning my liberal brother if Christ! Hey, did you even bother to read the link? It is a college sponsored workshop.

Textbook: Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky

Cliffnotes will suffice.

HankD

 

[Crabtownboy]

Good morning my liberal brother if Christ! Hey, did you even bother to read the link? It is a college sponsored workshop.

Aren't workshops designed to educate? It may not be what you want taught, but still it is education.

Are you in favor of Tea Party political activism workshops?

 

[HankD]

We are at the fork in the road between a turn to the left or the right.
Trump IMO kept us from going over the marxist left cliff.

Being a pessimist however I believe the turn ultimately will be to the left - Big time!

Not under a Trump administration which IMO will be 8 years - but when the current less-than-voting-age teenage sector comes of age at the end of the 8 years. By then, they will have been fully prepared, propagandized and brainwashed.

Hillary's legacy - Chelsea - Learn from your mother's mistakes Chelsea.

Any hope?: Yes.

Hopefully Gorsuch will be confirmed. The progressive liberals have to furiously try to keep him out of the SCOTUS so that any of their law suits will be bounced back to the lower liberal courts (4/4 split). Not too likely they can keep him out - thanks to Harry Reid.

Apart from that the only other conservative hope is the 2018 election.
That the hysterics and fake news pile-on Trump tactics of the Soros/DNC establishment machine will turn many more to Trump (as it did in the primary and general election) and result in a 60/40 RNC senate and an even greater proportion in the HR.

My blathering FWIW.

HankD

 

[StefanM]

What about Liberty University? (full disclosure---I have two degrees from there.)

It's a hardcore right-wing university that includes required religion classes, where the courses (even the non-religious ones) are taught all from a Christian worldview.

Should the university lose the right to receive Title IV funds (grants, loans for students) for students taking these classes? It's also possible to receive federal financial aid for seminary education. What about that?

If the 1st Amendment doesn't stop that kind of financial entanglement, there needs to be a great deal of latitude given to places like Duke.

 

[HankD]

Are you in favor of Tea Party political activism workshops?

Yes by all means.

Textbooks: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States of America, The Bill of Rights.

HankD

 

[MennoSota]

Good morning my liberal brother if Christ! Hey, did you even bother to read the link? It is a college sponsored workshop.

So it's not for credit. It's a campus group putting on a workshop.

The bothersome part is that a once Christian University now shamelessly encourages disobedience to God's word when they validate homosexual activity as God honoring.

 

[righteousdude2]

What about Liberty University? (full disclosure---I have two degrees from there.)

It's a hardcore right-wing university that includes required religion classes, where the courses (even the non-religious ones) are taught all from a Christian worldview.

Should the university lose the right to receive Title IV funds (grants, loans for students) for students taking these classes? It's also possible to receive federal financial aid for seminary education. What about that?

If the 1st Amendment doesn't stop that kind of financial entanglement, there needs to be a great deal of latitude given to places like Duke.

I graduated from Azusa Pacific University. Same as Liberty. However, being taught from Christians who love the Lord, is not comparable to being taught by radical, liberal haters hell bent on destroying the America we know and love.

I hope that answers your question. APU taught us to go into the world, and take to the streets ... not to block traffic, vandalize buildings and shout hateful slogans. We were equipped to go forth making disciples and teaching those disciples, and to brush off the dust from our shoes when they reject the Gospel, not to protest and force others to believe or be bullied and watch as we tear down and burn their communities.

 

[Rob_BW]

Hypothetical question: If time travel existed, and we brought back stories of these schools' current activities, would any of the people who endowed these schools be happy with them?

It seems that the foundation of higher learning in this nation rested on the charity of many Christian, God fearing men. It's a shame as to what it's devolved into.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Hypothetical question: If time travel existed, and we brought back stories of these schools' current activities, would any of the people who endowed these schools be happy with them?

It seems that the foundation of higher learning in this nation rested on the charity of many Christian, God fearing men. It's a shame as to what it's devolved into.

The father of public schools, Thomas Jefferson, was a deitist.

However, there is no doubt that some Christians have been very interested in education and many have endowed schools.

On your question, I think it would depend on the person. Some would welcome the changes, some would not. For instance those 'christians' [sic] who were pro-slavery and anti-education for African Americans would not be happy with changes whereby African Americas are educated.

From: http://dailysignal.com/2013/04/14/18th-century-advice-thomas-jefferson-on-education-reform/

Jefferson understood that freedom depends on self-government: the cultivation of self-reliance, courage, responsibility, and moderation. Education contributes to both the knowledge and virtues that form a self-governing citizen. By proposing a bill in Virginia that would have established free schools every five to six square miles, Jefferson sought to teach “all children of the state reading, writing, and common arithmetic.” With these skills, a child would become a citizen able to “calculate for himself,” “express and preserve his ideas, his contracts and accounts,” and “improve, by reading, his morals and faculties.”

Jefferson viewed this basic education as instrumental to securing “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” for Americans because it helps an individual “understand his duties” and “know his rights.”

 

[Rob_BW]

The father of public schools, Thomas Jefferson, was a deitist.

From: http://dailysignal.com/2013/04/14/18th-century-advice-thomas-jefferson-on-education-reform/

Jefferson understood that freedom depends on self-government: the cultivation of self-reliance, courage, responsibility, and moderation. Education contributes to both the knowledge and virtues that form a self-governing citizen. By proposing a bill in Virginia that would have established free schools every five to six square miles, Jefferson sought to teach “all children of the state reading, writing, and common arithmetic.” With these skills, a child would become a citizen able to “calculate for himself,” “express and preserve his ideas, his contracts and accounts,” and “improve, by reading, his morals and faculties.”

Jefferson viewed this basic education as instrumental to securing “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” for Americans because it helps an individual “understand his duties” and “know his rights.”

And you think that snippet about Jefferson, from statements cherry picked from a lifetime of letters by the way, would make John Harvard happy that the school that he endowed teaches courses focusing on " Queer Theology?"

That's a rhetorical question, by the way. The answer is obvious.

 

[Crabtownboy]

And you think that snippet about Jefferson, from statements cherry picked from a lifetime of letters by the way, would make John Harvard happy that the school that he endowed teaches courses focusing on " Queer Theology?"

That's a rhetorical question, by the way. The answer is obvious.

Rob,I've added to that post, but I will paste it below.

However, there is no doubt that some Christians have been very interested in education and many have endowed schools.

On your question, I think it would depend on the person. Some would welcome the changes, some would not. For instance those 'christians' [sic] who were pro-slavery and anti-education for African Americans would not be happy with changes whereby African Americas are educated. The question is too general to be given a simply answer.

 

[Rob_BW]

Rob,I've added to that post, but I will paste it below.

However, there is no doubt that some Christians have been very interested in education and many have endowed schools.

On your question, I think it would depend on the person. Some would welcome the changes, some would not. For instance those 'christians' [sic] who were pro-slavery and anti-education for African Americans would not be happy with changes whereby African Americas are educated. The question is too general to be given a simply answer.

Oh, too true.

Of course, if we look at where the concentration of the earliest schools are, I would wager that many of those endowers would have been abolitionist.

Maybe we should research it.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Oh, too true.

Of course, if we look at where the concentration of the earliest schools are, I would wager that many of those endowers would have been abolitionist.

Maybe we should research it.

Here is a link that lists the 25 oldest colleges/universities in the USA.

https://articles.niche.com/the-25-oldest-colleges-in-america/

 

[Rob_BW]

Here is a link that lists the 25 oldest colleges/universities in the USA.

https://articles.niche.com/the-25-oldest-colleges-in-america/

Wow, a lot more are south of the Mason Dixon line than I would have guessed.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Wow, a lot more are south of the Mason Dixon line than I would have guessed.

Few people know that St. John's College in Annapolis is the 3rd oldest college in America. It is a true, some say the only true, liberal arts school left in America. They do a great job. Graduate schools all over America welcome St. John's graduates.

 

[Rob_BW]

Few people know that St. John's College in Annapolis is the 3rd oldest college in America. It is a true, some say the only true, liberal arts school left in America. They do a great job. Graduate schools all over America welcome St. John's graduates.

They do run an interesting program, that's for sure.