Posted on 11/23/2004 6:05:33 AM PST by Pfesser
Many liberal pundits and newspaper letter writers have been bragging about how brilliant they are while bemoaning the supposed stupidity of those who voted to re-elect President Bush earlier this month.
So it probably should come as no surprise that two college professors wrote to the New York Times to explain why a recent survey found that Republicans were grossly outnumbered in academia: Republicans simply aren't smart enough to teach at the college level.
"Academics are trained to reason using logic, to question evidence and to consider and evaluate several possible interpretations of events," Markus Meister, a professor of biology at Harvard, said in one of two letters published yesterday. "All these activities are discouraged and indeed ridiculed by the present Republican leadership."
The professor added: "Academic Republicans must indeed suffer from cognitive dissonance."
Mr. Meister's view was echoed by John McCumber, a professor of Germanic languages at UCLA.
"A successful career in academia, after all, requires a willingness to be critical of yourself and to learn from experience, along with a lack of interest in material incentives," Mr. McCumber said in his letter. "All these are antithetical to Republicanism as it has recently come to be."
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Actually the reason Republicans aren't teaching in academia is because they don't like to be around lazy, self actualizing hippy morons.
And because you can make a hell of a lot more money outside of academia than within it.
Delusional eggheads.
Bingo!
The ugly little truth also is that most of the people in academia are morons, brilliant morons some, but still morons...
Democratic slogan for 2008:
Keep Dope Alive!
Just make sure that you don't let anyone else criticize you. "Academics" can't stand that.
Those that cannot DO.... Teach.
There is no tenure in the real world.. you gotta earn your keep.
Those who can do. Those who can't teach...
It would be interesting to see how liberal/conservative engineering professors are. I would expect they are more conservative since they deal more with the real world.
I spend 8 to 12 years of my life getting a PHD... work for 30 to 40 a year and maybe work my way up to 70 or 80k a year when I get tenure... OR I can get my 4 year degree, go out in the real world and make more in under 5 years than they will be making after 20 years to 25 years in academia.......
You do the math on who's the fool.
Isn't this pretty much the same argument the KKK used to use to explain why blacks couldn't read or write?
WHO'S YOUR DADDY
No they as latent Commies, that are bemoaning the fact that we don't have a Police state that would force us STUPID people to believe like them are go to a gulag.
And the most ironic part, after saying something like this, is that they'll then turn around and immediately call conservatives/Republicans "bigots" at the slightest provocation, without even attempting to look at issues from our viewpoint.
These academics confuse knowledge of a subject area with intelligence. They really aren't brilliant at all, but some of them know a particular area well. Was it Shaw who said that the reason academic politics is so vicious is that there is so very little at stake?
That and the fact that the old axiom "Those who can do... those who cannot teach" is TRUE!
The difference between knowledge and wisdom.
Ph.D
Stands for "Personality has Departed"
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