{"id":1536641,"date":"2022-07-02T16:49:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T20:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1536641"},"modified":"2022-07-02T16:49:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T20:49:44","slug":"hillsdale-college-president-under-fire-after-ripping-state-of-public-education-heres-what-he-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillsdale-college-president-under-fire-after-ripping-state-of-public-education-heres-what-he-said\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsdale College President Under Fire After Ripping State Of Public Education: Here\u2019s What He Said."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhillsdale-college-president-under-fire-after-ripping-state-of-public-education-heres-what-he-said%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1536641&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn tore into the state of public education last week during a private college event in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Arnn\u2019s comments were caught on a hidden camera at a private college event in Franklin, Tennessee, just south of the state capital of Nashville. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee attended the event as Arnn\u2019s \u201cspecial guest.\u201d The recording of the event was obtained by a local Tennessee outlet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newschannel5.com\/news\/newschannel-5-investigates\/revealed\/revealed-teachers-come-from-dumbest-parts-of-dumbest-colleges-tenn-governors-education-advisor-tells-him\">News Channel 5 Nashville<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee and Hillsdale College currently have a working partnership. Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tennessee-partners-with-hillsdale-college-in-statewide-charter-school-initiative\">announced<\/a> in January that Tennessee was partnering with Hillsdale College to build dozens of classical K-12 charter schools across the state.<\/p>\n<p>During the nearly two-hour event, Arnn criticized the institutions currently directing and influencing state-run education, such as the Department of Education, various universities with accredited education programs, and the National Association of Education union. After Channel 5 published its story, Claude Pressnell Jr., president of Tennessee Independent Colleges and Universities Association, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pressnell\/status\/1542650038047739904\">called<\/a> Arnn\u2019s comments \u201cincredibly disturbing\u201d and an insult to educators.<\/p>\n<p>Channel 5 reported clips of the event without publishing a full video of the event or Arnn\u2019s comments. The Daily Wire was not able to obtain a full recording of Arnn\u2019s comments, nor did Channel 5 respond to a request to share the full recording.<\/p>\n<p>Channel 5 reported that Arnn \u201crepeatedly mock[ed] the intelligence of public school teachers and question[ed] whether they really care about what is best for their students,\u201d a characterization that both Hillsdale College and Lee\u2019s office contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDr. Arnn was clearly criticizing the educational bureaucracy that has done a great disservice to both teachers and students by depriving them of the high-quality, content-rich education that makes for excellent teaching,\u201d Hillsdale College spokeswoman Emily Davis told The Daily Wire in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHillsdale College has been in the serious business of education and teaching for more than 175 years. It wants what parents want: for as many children in America as possible to have access to high-quality educational options,\u201d Davis continued. \u201cThe college\u2019s approach to classical education in the liberal arts and sciences \u2014 combined with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue \u2014 is the very best at teaching the whole child, helping students understand the world, and preparing young people for a life of service and flourishing. We look forward to assisting in that noble endeavor in Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee spokeswoman Laine Arnold told The Daily Wire, \u201cCritics dishonestly claimed that a recent event with Hillsdale College criticized Tennessee teachers when it did not. Criticizing activism and other Left-wing issues that creep into the classroom is entirely separate from sentiments about the value or performance of Tennessee teachers. Our respect and support for educators in Tennessee wasn\u2019t up for debate then and it isn\u2019t now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arnn\u2019s college is a Christian liberal arts school in southern Michigan well known for its refusal to accept federal funds of any kind to limit the influence the federal government has on its curriculum. The college is popular among conservatives and often advertises with right-wing broadcasters.<\/p>\n<p>Arnn said of the National Association of Education (NEA): \u201cThey\u2019re the biggest gorillas, and they have a monopoly on education.\u201d Teachers unions, of which the NEA is the largest, are generally highly partisan with 94% of donations backing Democrats, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/industries\/indus.php?ind=l1300\">Open Secrets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NEA\u2019s president, Becky Pringle, has been an outspoken critic of any display of religion in public schools, whether or not it is sanctioned by the school itself. She <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeckyPringle\/status\/1541433171761315843\">slammed<\/a> the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision to side with a Washington state high school football coach who was disciplined for praying at midfield after football games. Pringle denounced the coach\u2019s action as \u201csectarian religious coercion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later on in the event, Arnn criticized the university education system for teachers and the approach to education overall inherent in them. \u201cEd departments in colleges, if you work in a college, you\u2019ll know this \u2013 unless you work in the Ed department, ours is different \u2013 but they are the dumbest part of every college,\u201d Arnn said.<\/p>\n<p>The Hillsdale College president went on to suggest that teaching is not a skill that needs to be taught at universities, so much as the knowledge and topics the teachers will need to master in order to teach their students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you study physics, there\u2019s a subject, right? How does the physical world work? That\u2019s hard to figure out. Politics is actually the study of justice. What is justice? Some of the greatest books ever written are written about that. \u2018Plato\u2019s Republic\u2019 is written about that. Literature \u2013 they don\u2019t do it much anymore, but you can read the greatest books, the most beautiful books ever written. Education is the study of how to teach. Is that a separate art? I don\u2019t think so,\u201d Arnn said.<\/p>\n<p>Arnn cited theologian C.S. Lewis\u2019 book \u201cThe Abolition of Man,\u201d which in part argues that a rejection of an objective morality leads to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn tore into the state of public education last week during a private college event in Tennessee. Arnn\u2019s comments were caught on a hidden camera at a private college event in Franklin, Tennessee, just south of the state capital of Nashville. 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