# PragerU can't teach! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 28, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prageru-cant-teach/989233 "2023-08-28T16:11:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prageru-cant-teach/989233/1 "2023-08-28T16:11:23Z")
OK, yes, PragerU’s videos can help reinforce indoctrination into whatever we’re calling the US’s present rightwing ideology. But apparently, what they now provide for classroom instruction is half-assed and bad. They know nothing about pedagogy & care less. I was never an education major, so this critique was actually based on principles previously unfamiliar to me. But as spelled out here, it’s striking how sloppy PragerU’s “educational” material is: # How PragerU Hurts Students (and Teachers) by Zoe Bee [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/4NAiPYaogCw/maxresdefault.jpg "How PragerU Hurts Students (and Teachers)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAiPYaogCw) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prageru-cant-teach/989233/2 "2023-08-28T16:16:56Z")
Dennis Prager is a very smart man who’s spent just about his entire life being wrong about almost everything. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prageru-cant-teach/989233/3 "2023-08-28T16:18:13Z")
He strikes me as a white Thomas Sowell. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prageru-cant-teach/989233/4 "2023-08-28T18:16:32Z")
@7:15 one of the questions regarding the Statue of Liberty is, “How are her feet positioned?” Really? ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prageru-cant-teach/989233/5 "2023-08-28T19:14:27Z")
The Statue of Liberty is a sore point for me. It was designed as a celebration of the end of chattel slavery, but most white Americans ignore that? But even if you buy into the apparent dominant narrative that it represents immigration (from Europe), PragerU seems unwilling to talk about that, or the meaning of liberty, or of Liberty personified at all; bad sign. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prageru-cant-teach/989233/6 "2023-08-28T21:02:44Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > The Statue of Liberty is a sore point for me. It was designed as a celebration of the end of chattel slavery [Lots more complicated than that](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty). ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2023, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prageru-cant-teach/989233/7 "2023-08-28T21:55:32Z")
I’ve watched videos about this uh, institution, before. They have an anti-BLM episode with Frederick Douglass talking to kids about how it’s bad to protest and he was willing to compromise by waiting for policy changes rather than encourage rebellion. Frederick Douglass, whose support of the Civil War was full-throated in hopes it would end slavery. > **[Animated Frederick Douglass calls slavery a ‘compromise’ in PragerU video](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/animated-frederick-douglass-calls-slavery-compromise-prageru-video-rcna99246)** > > PragerU, a right-wing advocacy group, has made its way into the classroom with kids' videos deemed “misleading.” These are garbage people. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prageru-cant-teach/989233/8 "2023-08-29T01:26:01Z")
Well, okay. But that doesn’t really negate what I said about PragerU’s treatment of her. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prageru-cant-teach/989233/9 "2023-08-29T15:21:24Z")
Reading the title, I’m imagining Madonna putting it to music and singing _Praeger Don’t Teach!_ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/G333Is7VPOg/maxresdefault.jpg "Madonna - Papa Don't Preach (Official Video) [HD]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G333Is7VPOg) ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prageru-cant-teach/989233/10 "2023-08-31T18:16:49Z")
Prager U appeared in my radar when climate change deniers appeared in several Prager U “educational videos”. One of the best debunkers, Science Reporter Peter Hadfield, had a few reports about the science denial and indoctrination that Prager U is doing: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9XIpTqbLR5Y/hqdefault.jpg "Response to Patrick Moore's "What They Haven't Told You about Climate Change”") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XIpTqbLR5Y&t=1) It was really sick when Ron Desantis declared recently that he was making changes to “prevent our kids from indoctrination” while allowing it now in industrial quantities from a right wing outfit.