The Left Wants Workers, Not Thinkers

The underlying assumption of the “woke” Left is that regular people are dumb—or, at best, will quietly acquiesce to their new status quo. When the progressive Left looks at students, today they see groups of people—by race, gender, or sexuality—but at the outset of their project, the masses of America’s children were all future “workers.” The “experts” and “professors” on the Left, from the very beginning of their progressive takeover, have assumed the least of average citizens—trying to shift the classroom from a place of virtuous living and liberated minds to a place where basic skills are bestowed upon future workers. The latest iteration of this trend is the push for STEM, or Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math education, to be at the forefront of our classrooms. America’s classrooms have been centralized, technicalized, and scientized—with the aim of pumping out workers, not thinkers.

Battle For the American Mind, by Pete Hegseth with David Goodwin, pg.31-32