The left’s “long march through our institutions” has been very successful, and nowhere more so than in our education system. Most young Americans grow up under teachers and professors who are determined to transform the country and put government in control of our lives. Our schooling often leaves students with lots of grievances but short on ability.

In today’s Martin Center article, John Mac Ghlionn reflects on the consequences of this.

After observing the data showing that foreign-born college graduates substantially outearn American-born grads, he writes:

This isn’t about IQ. It’s about institutions. It’s about a cultural drift so deep, so corrosive, that a native-born population is slowly being nudged out of its own future — not by brute force or some grand conspiracy but by decades of educational decay, elite indifference, and intellectual cowardice. America didn’t run out of smart people. It ran out of the will to cultivate them.

Right. “Progressive” educators don’t care about highly educated, innovative, ambitious people. What they want are simple-minded ones who can be counted on to advance the revolution.

Ghlionn continues:

Today’s American student is increasingly guided into disciplines that produce little beyond debt and disillusionment. Fields once synonymous with discovery — engineering, chemistry, and applied physics — are under-enrolled, underfunded, and under-defended. Instead, we celebrate degrees in queerness or ‘Critical Race and Ethnic Studies.’ We infantilize students, training them to feel rather than think, and then we wonder why employers look elsewhere.

This isn’t going to change until we clean out or replace our educational institutions. We need teachers and professors who are dedicated to transmitting knowledge, not their political beliefs.