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BOB LINN

Remediating Education

Last week, one of our board members drew to my attention that Joe Harroz, President of the University of Oklahoma, is advancing an agenda promoting the ideals of LGBTQI. The hiring of Jessica Tueller to begin teaching at the university this fall confirms this.

See the announcement here.

Tueller lists on her personal website her association with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an organization whose website states it advocates for “Lesbian, Gay, Trans, Bisexual, and Intersex Persons.”

Her website indicates she organized events on behalf of the LGBTI.

Last year, Tueller published in the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. It was a very long article articulating in detail her leftist ideology titled Sex/Gender Segregation: A Human Rights Violation, Not a Protection.

Read the article here. 

She argues that “international law” has precedent over local law.

An argument the will be making to Oklahoma law students.

Last week, Ray Carter published for OCPA a summary of the positions Tueller advocated for in the Yale article. Carter writes:

Tueller said continued opposition to allowing men in women’s bathrooms (and vice versa) is the product of “an alliance of conservative actors and radical feminists” who “promote the continuation of the law's binaristic, woman-specific approach to sex and gender while contesting the rights—and, at times, the existence—of LGBTI individuals.

The leftist agenda President Harroz is placing in front of our students represents a cultural dead end to human society. Our founders understood that Christianity was the foundation of a moral culture and that only a moral and religious people could sustain the republican ideals upon which the nation they were founding was built.

Countering this will be . . .

At noon on Wednesday, April 2, the OCPAC Foundation will host author Timothy Price who will discuss the transformative role in education played more than 300 years ago by a Czechoslovakian educator.

The internationally celebrated John Comenius helped shape Western education.  Timothy Price re-published a more accessible version of Comenius’ seminal work, The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart.  The book was the foundation John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. 

The author, John Amos Comenius, published so prolific a body of work on matters of education that the United Nations awards annually a Comenius Medal for outstanding achievements in the fields of education research and innovations.

Eduard Benes, former President of Czechoslovakia, praised Comenius by writing:

He wrote more than ninety religious, educational and political works . . . He was certainly among the greatest and most enlightened spirits of his time and is rightly described as one of the first modern educators – a teacher of the nations.

Our future lies in moral strength, in spiritual maturity and education . . . And we shall preserve at any price the ideals of freedom and peace which were first, three hundred years ago, held up before the world by Jan Amos Comenius.

Timothy Price’s updated English version of The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart presents Comenius as the astute observer of the world’s culture. 

Within its pages is the graphic contrast between two worlds.

First is the world as the product of the unruly, untamed, and largely unthinking natural state of mankind.  Second is a world founded upon the educational principles found only in the transcendent:  The Christian ideals which built Western Civilization. 

At a point in the life of Pilgrim (the story’s protagonist) that he was able to distinguish between good and evil, he began to search for his life’s direction.  He sought to understand the complete panorama of human affairs which lay before him.

It was then that he was approached by a friendly, energetic soul who appeared pleasant and quite loquacious.  Pilgrim explained he was exploring the world’s options and this talkative gentleman then introduced himself as “Mr. Ubiquitous” and offered to introduce him to the labyrinth of the world’s wonders.

I want to quickly take you to the third chapter where Mr. Ubiquitous explains to Pilgrim that:

It is not Her Majesty’s wish that anyone entering her kingdom should himself evaluate what he hears and sees as he pleases or that one should himself philosophize about whatever it is  . . . Rather, her express wish is that nature and purposes of what he might see should be explained to him and that he remain content with that arrangement.

With this understood, we come to chapter four where Pilgrim meets the indispensable partner of Mr. Ubiquitous.  His name is Mr. Delusion who soon provided a set of spectacles (eyeglasses) to enable him to see the world as the government wanted its subjects to see it.

With these, things were seen as their opposite.  Black was made white.  White became black.  The beautiful was made to appear ugly and so on.

It is here I am going to stop today and make my case.

As an educator, it was profoundly important to Comenius that our young people were not misinformed about the nature to the world or of their purpose in the world.  

J.L. Paton, President of University College in Newfoundland, said it wall when speaking of the way in which Comenius defined education.  He said:

Comenius defines education in terms of what his creator wants him to become.  The child’s education is to help him to rise to the full title of his dignity.

Modern authorities define man not in terms of what he is to be, but in terms of his antecedents.  Education is, they say, to adopt man to his environment, by which they mean to make him become a sort of Mowgli, to drag him down, in fact, to the very environment out of which he has with endless struggles risen towards the light.

Dr. Paton here is referring to Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, the enduring story from which many books, movies, and television shows have been made.  

The Jungle Book is Kipling’s story of a mythical boy he named Mowgli. As a child, Mowgli is abandoned in the jungle to live among the animals. The boy has no outside reference as to his etymology and ideological heritage.

Paton stated further:

Comenius has some inspiration for us at the very opening of his great book on the science of education. There are the seeds of knowledge, of virtue, of godliness implanted in us.

These are the qualities which differentiate man from the lower members of creation.  It is the educator’s function to foster the growth of these seeds.  Draw them out and “set free the imprisoned splendor of the soul.”

This past weekend I was in Dallas attending the semi-annual symposium of the Philadelphia Society.  While there, Dr. Vance Ginn of the Pelican Institute (and a former Trump advisor) stated that America is the consummation of the West.

If you and I are to see that achievement continue, we must not allow our leading institutions to degrade students into Kipling’s Mowgli.

The University of Oklahoma will only begin to play a significant role in the rebuilding of the West and its apex (America) if it quicky sheds the remnants of the 21st century’s retreat into paganism.

The university is the educational fountainhead of society.  We need our highest institutions of education to be led by men who will teach our young people that they are more than Mowgli, in his ignorance, thought he was.

Thank you all for being a part of the

preservation of truth in our Oklahoma culture!

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APRIL 2, 2025

Wade Burleson will interview author Tim Price who published in English The Labrynth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart. The book was the forerunner to Pilgrim's Progress by the man for whom the United Nations bestows its annual Teacher of the Year award.

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