Dershowitz: 'No teacher has the right to propagandize students'

Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Thursday that teachers need to get back to teaching students how to think and not what to think. 

"I spent 60 years as a teacher," Dershowitz said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. "In the 60 years, I can't recall a single instance where I ever expressed a private, personal political view in the classroom. My students didn't know whether I was a Democrat or Republican, Zionist or an anti-Zionist, unless they read my work outside of class. But in class, they couldn't tell that."

He explained that, as someone who is grading students, professors and teachers at schools and college campuses can't use classrooms to promote political ideologies. 

"No teacher has the right to propagandize students," Dershowitz stated. "They're in a captive audience. You're grading them. You can't tell them what to think. You can't tell them what views they are entitled to express in the classroom. The classroom is a sacred place."

Dershowitz further criticized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs on university campuses, which he argued amount to propaganda.

"We're seeing this DEI bureaucracy become the propaganda mill of universities down through elementary schools," he said. "It has to stop, but there isn't a lot of pressure to stop it at this point, particularly from among the faculty."

He added that 97% of the faculty at Harvard lean left while about three percent lean right, showing the absence of differing opinions.