A veteran college professor said protests surrounding right-leaning visiting speakers on college campuses is a “superficial symptom” of liberal teaching that has taken over classrooms across the country.
University of California, Santa Cruz professor emeritus of German literature John Ellis joined conservative commentator Mark Levin on his Fox News show Life, Liberty & Levin to discuss the indoctrination he believes is taking place in classrooms.
“The public sees the shout-downs and the near-riots with regard to visiting speakers, but it doesn’t think about how that could happen,” Ellis said in the episode that will air Sunday evening.
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College campuses have seen students and professors protesting visiting speakers who don’t espouse liberal ideologies. People, such as former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, former acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, and political scientist and sociologist Charles Murray, among others, have all faced protests before speaking events.
“The reason it happens, of course, is you’ve got students largely doing it in those cases. But they’re taught by radical professors,” Ellis said. “So that the real source of the problem is … in the classrooms where those kids learn their contempt for ideas that don’t fit within what their professors are teaching them.”
Ellis has been teaching since 1966 and recently published a book called The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done.
“The real problem is way behind the scenes in the classrooms, which the public never sees,” Ellis added during his interview.
