{"id":534208,"date":"2023-01-03T06:04:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T03:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-im-leaving-college-and-choosing-education-over-indoctrination\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T06:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T03:04:41","slug":"why-im-leaving-college-and-choosing-education-over-indoctrination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-im-leaving-college-and-choosing-education-over-indoctrination\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why I&#8217;m leaving college and choosing education over indoctrination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3229a8d2d7e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3229a8d2d7e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-im-leaving-college-and-choosing-education-over-indoctrination\/#%E2%80%9CWhy_Im_leaving_college_and_choosing_education_over_indoctrination%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Why I&#8217;m leaving college and choosing education over indoctrination&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWhy_Im_leaving_college_and_choosing_education_over_indoctrination%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Why I&#8217;m leaving college and choosing education over indoctrination&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Higher education isn\u2019t what it used to be; in fact, it\u2019s become the stark opposite of what it was intended to be.<\/p>\n<p>What was once an arena of competing and dueling beliefs with fertile soil for the cultivation of bold and fresh ideas has become a barren desert, occupied almost exclusively by the woke-left agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s become an institution more fixated on teaching students what to think than how to think.\u00a0It\u2019s focused on turning students into perpetual victims, anti-American sympathizers and \u2014 if it really hits the jackpot \u2014 full-fledged <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>-justice warriors by graduation.<\/p>\n<p>And that delusion is why I\u2019m leaving \u2014 even as a University of Alabama junior, with just three semesters to go.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I no longer have any interest in paying to be told my blackness is a disability and all white people are evil. And asked what my pronouns are when \u2014 at least in my opinion \u2014 it should be clear as day.<\/p>\n<p>When I made the decision to go to college, it was a no-brainer. It was what I was supposed to do, or at least that\u2019s what I was led to believe.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/pearson-education-388.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Voorhees Mall on Rutgers University's College Avenue Campus.\" class=\"wp-image-25215396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/pearson-education-388.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/pearson-education-388.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/pearson-education-388.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Free speech has become stifled on college campuses. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It felt not only as if it were the right choice; it felt like the only choice. And this wasn\u2019t a feeling unique to me but one shared by many among the millions of students who enter college every single year \u2014 and their parents, who more often than not are the ones footing the bill to send them there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But what if I were to tell you the feeling is rooted in a lie? That, according to a Georgetown University study, there are 30 million jobs paying more than $55,000 a year that don\u2019t require a college degree? That there are six-figure opportunities in careers such as welding, carpentry and even tech that not only don\u2019t require a degree but also don\u2019t come with a prerequisite of hating America?\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Or what if I were to tell you that this lie \u2014 implanted deep into the psyche of our society \u2014 is not by accident but by design, as it allows leftist professors to act with near-absolute impunity?<\/p>\n<p>It allows institutions like Stanford University to shamelessly embrace the absurd: labeling words such as \u201cAmerican\u201d and \u201cgrandfather\u201d racist and harmful. It allows Rutgers University to declare a war on grammar \u2014 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/rutgers-declares-grammar-racist\/\">casting it aside as racist<\/a> in an effort to \u201cstand with and respond to\u201d the Black Lives Matter movement.\u00a0And it\u2019s why places like Berkeley \u2014 once heralded as a bastion of free speech \u2014 have become symbolic of everything wrong with higher education today.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Colleges and universities act with impunity because they\u2019re guided by the belief that we need them more than they need us.\u00a0Conservatives must make it clear that\u2019s simply not the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Colleges are a business. And it is high time conservatives start making their voices heard using their dollars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/pearson-education-389.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Sign for The University of Alabama on the front of the College of Nursing building. \" class=\"wp-image-25215397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/pearson-education-389.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/pearson-education-389.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/pearson-education-389.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Many conservatives believe that they must accept the status quo of America\u2019s college campuses or forgo their dreams of living a successful and fruitful life altogether.\u00a0<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If your college goes woke, help them go broke: Withhold your tuition dollars, suspend your alumni contributions or skip a football <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> or two.\u00a0(And if you\u2019re a fan of Stanford University football but not a fan of their new harmful-language guide, it should be especially easy:\u00a0They went 3-9 this past season!)<\/p>\n<p>All jokes aside, a false dichotomy has existed among conservatives for far too long: that they must accept the status quo of America\u2019s college campuses or forgo their dreams of living a successful and fruitful life altogether.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But this dichotomy is exactly that \u2014 false \u2014 and conservatives have not just the means to fight back against the woke agenda that pervades our campuses but a moral obligation as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I say this all to note that I am not opposed to college.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the vast majority of my time at the University of Alabama, but even in the Yellowhammer State, my campus experience didn\u2019t come without its challenges.\u00a0In my freshman year, my dorm-room door was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs42.com\/news\/local\/ua-student-finds-derogatory-note-taped-to-dorm-room-over-his-support-for-president-trump\/\">plastered with an expletive-laden anti-Trump posting<\/a>. During my sophomore year, while campaigning for student government, I was targeted by my school <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>paper \u2014 slandered as a racist, labeled a homophobe and called a threat to our campus\u2019 marginalized communities. The author of that piece is a white male.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I have thick skin, however. And my decision to leave has less to do with my own campus than it does with having a deeply held passion for helping other conservative students in far less-ideal situations hold their own on theirs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We cannot afford to lose our college campuses to the radical left. That would mean we have lost a generation. And to have lost a generation would mean we have lost our country.<\/p>\n<p><em>CJ Pearson is an on-air personality for PragerU.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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