Education is indoctrination, no matter what form it takes. Even telling students raw "non-political" facts is indoctrination into the worldview "people born to

Education is indoctrination, no matter what form it takes. Even telling students raw "non-political" facts is indoctrination into the worldview "people born to your station ought to be knowledgeable". You cannot "learn" anything without being indoctrinated into whatever view of reality your teachers take, so the idea that you could teach without "activism" and only focus on "transmission of knowledge" seems unachievable to me. Many conservatives (a word which I call myself) seem to take this view that it's possible to "teach without activism". However, when you examine what is entailed as a part of "teaching without activism", they are almost always arguing that schools should teach according to a social or informational standard that was considered "radical activism" anywhere from five to fifty decades ago. I suppose my overall point is that a faculty group calling to "teach without activism" should drop its "apolitical" façade and instead openly advocate for teaching according to whichever principles they think are most desirable for good societal outcomes. In this case, it seems like the subtext is that they'd like to see more socially conservative or "right-wing" filters applied to what is taught and how it's taught, and these filters are out-of-alignment with the standard progressive/communist/leftist/etc. spirit which is quite common on college campuses (and has been for decades, if not centuries). I suppose this would result in many of them being publicly and embarrassingly fired by their overwhelmingly left-wing donors and students, but if their ideas are good enough they should be able to seek funding by right-wing donors and open competing universities dedicated to "instruction" over "activism", whatever that means to them. There is a demand for a service like this right now in the US that theoretically could be met by sufficiently motivated actors. I don't see this happening, though, as in the US the "right wing" is held in the pervasive grip of an anti-intellectual movement that started a long time ago.