In today’s Pope Center piece, Mary Grabar writes about her experience at a teacher conference in Georgia. Such conferences are not about such mundane matters as how best to teach students arithmetic or how to write good paragraphs. Instead, they’re mostly about how to smother them with leftist ideas on “social justice,” the threat to the planet, and so on.

From “progressive” education theorists to teachers to the minds of youngsters: That’s how the transmission of ruinous ideas works.