Bill Ayers and Marxist Educational Theory

I don't really think people should be judged by their friends. I know if I was to run for president, I would constantly be apologizing for my associations with queer feminist trotskyites, animal rights extremists, eco terrorists, smack addicts, D list Hollywood tarts, lap dancers, as well as bat ass crazy militiamen bunkered down in the Idaho panhandle.

So I don't really care if Bill Ayers is one of Barack Obama's honky bros. And I don't really care if, in his youth, under the influence of way too much Marx and copious quantities of hallucinogens, Ayers became a pimply-ass suburban version of Che Guevara. That sort of nuttery was the kind of thing dorky college students, who should have been worrying about why they weren't getting laid, contemplated during the Dawn of the Age of Aquarius.

But what I am concerned about is that a President Obama might appoint Dr. Ayers, or one of the many education professors just like him, to head the Department of Education.

The unrepentant former Weatherman Underground bomb tosser, is now a respected education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also responsible for some of the most outrageous political claptrap being foisted on America's teachers-in-training.

Of course, with the United States ranking near the bottom in educational achievement in the industrialized world, the teaching colleges should be solely concerned about producing teachers who can somehow teach Jane and Johnny to read, not politics of any kind.

But with a public education system rapidly going down the crapper, the mission of Dr. Ayers is to make sure America's teachers are thoroughly indoctrinated in Marxist theory.

Bill Ayers is a leader in the “critical pedagogy” academic educational school of thought,which sees elementary school students as vessels through which the revolution can be realized. Rather than blowing up ROTC offices, Bill Ayers is now attempting to plant bombs in the minds of the nation's school children.

His Handbook of Social Justice in Education is required reading in many of the nation's Schools of Education.

Ayers' “critical pedagogy” theory is based upon Paolo Freire's book Pedagogy of the Oppressed , which is also must reading in academic educational circles.

Freire's bible of progressive education explains why traditional teaching methods are just tools of capitalist oppression and imperialism.

Dr. Ayers, and his fellow latte sipping Marxists, browbeat young teaching students, until they accept the thoroughly discredited economic and social theories of dialectic materialism, much as the victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution did.

Bill Ayers is just a nerdy misguided college freshman, who never grew up, and can not stop playing revolution.

Unfortunately, there are way too many people, including perhaps Barack Obama, who take him seriously.

At the very least, the presidential aspirant needs to tell us that his pal is full of shit.