Posted on 12/22/2022 8:23:19 AM PST by george76
Liberals are all for Free Speech, until they aren’t.
The other 41% are clueless.
and 99 percent of the professors fear disagreeing with their students..........................
This tells me that students are taught to disagree with conservatives by the professors. Some are catching on, but some aren’t. Then again, I would assume that there are a certain amount of good conservative professors as well. Potential college students are perhaps not as selective as they should be when picking a college to attend.
Today’s college environments put the “uni-verse” into University.
There are no real profs in the arts - nope, let’s be a bit more realistic - there are few real profs in the arts anymore. I’m STEM type, but have always loved and respected history, art, music. Now? Bwahahahahahahaha.
Classical liberals really did believe in free speech. Unfortunately, Jimmy Carter is the only classical liberal left. It is a shame - and a tragedy - that Carter does not speak up against this suppression of free speech.
As for today’s liberals, this famous saying certainly applies:
Scratch a liberal, find a fascist.
59% know the deal, then. The other 41% are sheep among wolves.
In the early 80s I was taking a grad course in Philosophy. The professor, chairman of the dept, had a syllabus which categorized all the various disciplines as this or that form of Humanism (7 or so different varieties, including sectarian [Christian]).
I went into his office to contend that labeling Christian philosophy as Humanism is a complete contradiction, in view of Humanism’s claim that “man is the measure of all things”.
He simply said: “whatever.” I got an A when all was said and done.
I gather that it’s not that way any more.
It’s called conditioning. This is why the right is weak. This starts in elementary schools and all the way up. The right have been conditioned to be silent.
they are there to learn, not interject their uneducated mindspeak into the classroom.
Colleges have children for customers. They simply terrorize them, because they can.
Their “providers” are overgrown children who never left school called “professors”. They act out routinely without moderation.
School consumers should demand accountability and complain loudly if such demands are met with grade retaliation.
You’re paying for an education. You should teach your children to be demanding consumers and help them do that.
Regurgitate what the professor wants to hear / read.
I’m very surprised the number is that low. I bet it was similar 50 years ago.
Professors chosen on the basis of kink, gender and color are usually stupid.
This is NOT to say that gays, blacks and women can’t be the most qualified - being hired on merit. It’s saying WHEN professors are chosen for kink, gender and color - they’re usually stupid.
Stupid professors produce stupid students including stupid ‘teachers’ who in turn produce stupid American students K - to 12... It’s a circle of failure.
Today we’re in a world where ‘professors’ are afraid of being challenged by students and afraid of hearing ideas outside of the ‘safe ones’ they already believe. It’s education for anti-intellectuals ... people fearful of ideas.
Depends on the prof.
Some are fine and don’t mind the challenges.
The “liberal” or “progressive” tolerant ones?
Forget it. Disagree at your peril and sacrifice your GPA.
It happens way before that. Public schools teach that disagreeing with liberalism is hate. Their parents must agree with that or they wouldn’t send them to public school.
I guess the real problem here is that groomer government high school teachers haven’t prepared students to make an argument or how to be prepared to really learn. While, it was a lot different when I was in college, I had profs that spewed bull crap, sometimes even being wrong in mathematics. If the error was big enough, I would call them out on it. I paid for my college education and I considered myself to be a customer first. I had a clear objective of learning specific things. I went to lectures not just to learn, but to validate what I had learned by studying prior to class. The difference could be illustrated by a student that can follow and confirm what a prof was writing on a blackboard as he wound himself around the room and a student that simply took notes and wrote everything the prof was writing, verbatim, only hoping to figure it out later.
Most people do not belong in college and unfortunately that includes a lot of educators too.
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