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Monday, February 02, 2004

Lies My Teachers Told Me by J.D. Cassidy

"Just over a year ago, I received a degree in history from the largest state college in Massachusetts. Having enrolled as a history major with the hope of acquiring a well-rounded historical perspective, I assumed that my professors would encourage my disinterested ambition. I was wrong.

With just a few exceptions, my professors were leftists who infused their lectures with political opinion and assigned reading material that reinforced their leftwing views. For information that would help me develop a balanced perspective on history, particularly the history of the West, I was forced to look beyond the confines of my formal education."

"For those conservative students still trapped behind enemy lines in academia, I offer the following list of lies, told to me either directly or indirectly by radical professors, and my personal response to each. It is my hope that this list will be of use to any student who is searching, as I often was, for intellectual ammo to ward off the false gods of the left."
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