Part I

You can lead a student to the TRUTH in Nature but, if it makes him UNCOMFORTABLE, he will not be able to sincerely Believe It!

Part II

You can lead a student to feel COMFORTABLE about any alleged (but false) TRUTH and, no matter how IRRATIONALLY Wrong it is, he will sincerely Believe It!

Part III

When I was in college in the 1960s, students were there to learn how to think for themselves, go out into the world and earn a living as a self-supporting adult.  Today, there are still students who study useful fields, most especially Engineering, that enable that future life.  However, as the assassin at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD) illustrates, even engineering students cannot escape the higher education experience without massive doses of Political Indoctrination.  When I was in college, in the 1960s, I did not know a single fellow student who aspired to make a living in Politics or any of its associated fields.  Clearly, when grade school students are organized by teachers’ union teachers to go out on a ‘Protest March’ against POTUS 45 Donald J. Trump in 2017, the process is confirmed.  I experienced that in early 2017 while shopping in a supermarket and overhearing one teachers’ union teacher on a cell phone talking with another teachers’ union teacher about where and when they were to assemble grade school student Protestors and Demonstrators against BAD, BAD Donald J. Trump.

For the last 30 years or more, out of curiosity, I have purchased and listened to or watched several lecture series from the Learning Company about a variety of topics that I have been interested in.  One of their lecturers, J. Rufus Fears, was a teacher of Classical Greece, Classical Rome and the Western Civilization history of Freedom and Liberty.  He died some years ago.  But, in one of those lectures, he casually added a phenomenon that he had observed develop among his students after his career began in the 1960s.

He said that nowadays, most students he encounters, whenever they face an exam in school, regardless of the topic, ask themselves the exact same question:  “What is it that the teacher wants me to write down on this piece of paper?”