--and while you had to shut up to get thru the class there were most probably lots of good things you were able to learn anyway. There is no 'free speech' in the work place. Some folks complain that their boss told 'em that they can't talk about say, Jesus anymore just like years ago hippies complained that the boss insisted that they get a haircut (and a bath).
We know there some places our politics aren't welcome and others where it's OK.
“—and while you had to shut up to get thru the class there were most probably lots of good things you were able to learn anyway. “
It was an economics class. The teacher was extolling raising the minimum wage. He gave all the ordinary and long disproven reasons about positive results. One of them was “price stickiness.” This theory holds that it takes up to two years to change all the prices on goods and because of that inflation takes a long time to absorb and dilute the wage increase. I pointed out that virtually all prices now are determined by a universal product code on the package. The price of all goods can be marked up over night by changing them in the computer just once. The new price will ring up because the scanner reads the product code and looks up the price in the computer. He was stunned! The up-to-date text we were using still presented the stickiness theory. I am sure he dashed off an article about it.
He confirmed my long held belief that economists are clueless idiots. Harry Truman said he wanted a one-armed economist. When asked why he replied, “to stop him from saying, ‘on the other hand.’”
The difference is, he was paying for this 'privilege.'