Analysis: Be skeptical of Elon Musk’s claims of educational “indoctrination”
. There are unquestionably other examples from the same period and later, but three seemed like enough to make the point: This is a long-standing pattern.
In 1950, there were about 2.3 million people enrolled in college, 11 percent of the population ages 16 to 24. By 1970, there were 8.6 million college students, 26 percent of the population in that age range, which itself had increased by 61 percent. There were a lot more college students and, so, a lot more opportunities for confrontation.What occurred at Stanford wasn’t a function of “indoctrination,” Soviet-level or otherwise.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been elevating this idea that colleges were indoctrinating students as well, a claim that’s in keeping with his efforts to appeal to conservative voters by attacking the political left.
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