EDITORIALS: Truth and respect

Recent Coeur d’Alene Press editorials (Nov. 14 and 18) dealt with the subjects of Truth and Respect. I greatly appreciate that the Editor’s heart was in the right place!

The Editor’s focus was mostly on conservative North Idaho. My wife and I have visited 16 college campuses from October 2017 till October 2018.

Since 2010 we have researched and been in touch with at least one college in all 50 states, and at least 20 nations.

In California we have been in touch with at least 13 institutions of learning; Washington 7; Idaho 8; Montana 3, Colorado 3; all 8 Ivy-league schools...

We approach students, faculty, staff, and students’ parents as Grandparents willing to listen. For myself as a marine and land geologist, it is a wonderful experience to learn.

We have interviewed freshmen to seniors, and PhD-graduate students. These students include Atheists, Christians, Hindu, Moslem…

After interviewing hundreds of students, please understand that education is not just learning, but a business — a very Big Business. And mostly liberal based?

We have met students with $100,000 in debt, and still do not have a degree.

Many can not get work in their areas of expertise.

There is indoctrination going on. Less quantifiable majors such as sociology have more indoctrination (fake education and news)? More quantifiable majors such as engineering are less prone to intellectual indoctrination and manipulation.

There is persecution going on in many universities, like at my alma mater University of California at Berkeley (1965), where there is no free exchange of ideas? Recently, Isabella Chow was ousted from her student senate seat. She was demonized for her Christian views.

I would love Truth and Respect, but little-by-little, it is evaporating in this nation? For where this nation and the world are headed, readers might read Matthew 24.

JIM PEARL

Hayden Lake