Do you know what my College Math Instructor told me yesterday? (Course not LOL). Well, a few days ago the school took out all of the podiums. I thought, hmm, that is wierd, but didn't think much of it. Well, the instructor came in for class and complained that he didn't have any room for his computer because he paperwork covers the little tiny desk that they give the instructors to use. He said that next quarter, there won't even be a table for the instructors to use! I was like, "What? How come?" He said that there is a movement going on with the education establishment that says that the students should be more "owning" of the classroom. They believe that the teacher should be "closer" to the students and not be standing there over us. You know, pretty soon they will be asking us, what do you want to learn? Sheesh, it's no wonder kids are not learning anything!!!
She's applying to very conservative, Southern schools, and also to Princeton, just because I went there, but I don't think she really wants to go there and I don't think it's the right school for her. It was liberal when I was there 30 years ago, but still tolerant of other views. From what I understand now, it's totally intolerant of anything but the left lib/rad party line.
But I don't think we'll be seeing any of that neo-pedagogical nonsense around schools like Washington & Lee, Davidson, or Wake Forest. We've attended classes at all of them and they are pretty straight-shooting profs - either your typical podium lecture mode or round table discussion in the smaller classes. (LOL when you write back and tell me you're at W&L - which appears to be the most conservative school I ever saw!)