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Our Education to Totalitarianism and Transsexualism

Our Education to Totalitarianism and Transsexualism
A view of a sculpture by Rubem Robierb dedicated to the transgender/gender non-conforming community in Tribeca Park in New York City on Nov. 4, 2019. Noam Galai/Getty Images for Mastercard
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The progressive lengthening, if not necessarily deepening, of education in North America and Western Europe has had at least one surprising effect: it has greatly increased the number of people with a totalitarian cast of mind. Our youngsters emerge from their education so heavily indoctrinated that they view the world though an ideological distorting lens ever afterwards.

Theodore Dalrymple
Theodore Dalrymple
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Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor. He is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York and the author of 30 books, including “Life at the Bottom.” His latest book is “Embargo and Other Stories.”
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