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.
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.
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.
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.
I disagreed with many of my university professors and I let them know.
But I was a Vietnam era Vet, NRA member, with a full time job, paying a mortgage, and married raising a family.
I was at a private University and would not hesitate to make an appointment with the university president if needs be.
I’m paying for an education, not indoctrination.
It made a big difference in how I was treated.
Graduated with a STEM degree class of 90.
Now I tried it on a nun in the elite all girls high school I went to (on scholarship). Whew...what a b****. The Lord wouldn't have blown me off with such arrogance.
A liberal professor in the business department at the University of Utah taught me the price of dissent back in the seventies. Professors there and where I went to law school openly advanced their agenda, which also included using their position to have sex with their students. They had the morals of pimps.
I just retired from teaching economics in college. I had an open forum for EVERYONE to express their beliefs, but reserved the right to debate them.