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| | Reason magazine -- March 2000, Thought Reform 101 by Alan Charles Kors |
 | | Orwell did not know that as he wrote, Mao's China was subjecting university students to "thought reform," known also as "re-education," that was not complete until children had denounced the lives and political morals of their parents and emerged as "progressive" in a manner satisfactory to their trainers. |
 | | Colleges and universities have been hiring diversity "trainers" or "facilitators" for 15 years, and the most famous of them can command $35,000 for "cultural audits," $5,000 for sensitivity workshop training, and a sliding scale of honoraria, some for not less than $3,000 per hour, for lectures. |
 | | Alan Charles Kors (akors@sas.upenn.edu) is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, co-author of The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses (HarperCollins), and president of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. |
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