Posted on 12/08/2004 8:39:56 AM PST by dalereed
This should be sent to every single college professor in the country!
After reading this, I am sorry that I have chosen this year to retire from the ranks of academia.
If I could stay, I would welcome our veterans with open arms.
So, liberal profs - get ready cuz they be comin' yer way.
By the time these veterans have a chance to earn Ph.D.'s, a lot of the leftists hired in the '60s and early '70s will be retiring. The question then will be whether an outstanding candidate whose outlook has been partly shaped by his experiences in Afghanistan or Iraq will have a chance of getting hired...that will depend on departmental hiring committees and whether they will require ideological conformity.
If only there were more like him! I don't think that campus life should be dominated by either liberal or conservative schools of thought...let all sides be heard! One of the things I have heard most about acquiring a college education is that you are also supposed to gain critical thinking skills. How are you supposed to do that when you are being spoonfed dogma? Let's get more guys like this on campus!
Maybe then I would feel comfortable going to college. *grin*
It ought to be really interesting when these folks get back. I hope it's the miserable whiners and deserters who are shamed this time.
This is a chance for the veterans to change academia by challenging its facts and its biases.
All a professor can do is give a bad grade, but what's that compared to facing sniper fire.
My nephew may ending up taking some courses ...at least now I can advise him on one prof worth taking a class with.
Great read!
Semper Fi
"One of the things I have heard most about acquiring a college education is that you are also supposed to gain critical thinking skills"
One of the only professors I had that I really had respect for was a physics prof that always had open book exams with tests so long that no one could possibly finish and said that there was only one reason to be in college was to learn how to think.
His attitude was that if you hadn't learned the basics and how to apply them all the books in the world wouldn't help you in the exam.
Can some one explain "worked 50-and 60-hour days"???
"Can some one explain "worked 50-and 60-hour days"???"
I'm sure it was just a small brain fart and it should be week instead of days.
I worked 70+/week for 40 years running a construction business.
Sounds like my kind of guy...too bad I am too stupid for physics, LOL!
"too bad I am too stupid for physics"
No one is too stupid for physics if they put their mind to it and learned the basics especially in math, of course it helps to work at learning from the time you start school.
The biggest problem in the last 30+ years is the schools pass students on instead of failing them when they should have been and repeat a grade. By doing that they have doomed the student to continued failure because they will never understand whats happening at the next level, especially in the math and siences.
Thankfully I not only had a good education from home and breezed through school but it was at a time before they had invented shrinks and the word esteem wasn't part of the language!
Well I remember the end of hazing when I started in 1946. Some young upper classman treatened to paddle a GI freshman because he refused the wear a beanie. Hazing ended when the GI said 'If you hit me with that f'ing paddle, I'll break it over your f'ing head'. Yes, The returning military will make a difference.
Back in my senior year in engineering school (NCSU, Class of '81), I took a few b.s. liberal arts classes just to meet the minimal hours taken. I didn't matter much whether I aced them or not, as long as I passed for graduation.
Well, one of the classes was "Peace and War in the Nuclear Age", taught by an ever-so-liberal touchy-feely professor. He would set up role-playing exercises where we would act as world leaders and "work together to resolve international issues and promote global harmony". Except I didn't play the game that way.
No, friends and neighbors, I deliberately went out of my way to get in touch with my inner barbarian. My mantra became "Over the Pole". When an enemy country threatened economic sanctions, I would nuke them, jump up and down on the rubble, then turn to the remaining leaders and ask "Who's next?". By the end of the scenario, I ruled by fiat and the professor hated my guts.
Well, when the time came for semester's end, he gave me a "C" for the class since he couldn't fail me and because I took great care to do all the class work and homework). At our final "counseling session", I just smiled when he asked me if I had any questions or complaints about my grades. "Nope", I answered, "just as long as I passed and get my diploma."
As I started out his office door, however, I turned and said "By the way, I accepted a job offer yesterday from Newport News Shipbuilding. I'm going to work reactor overhaul on nuclear missile submarines with a guaranteed salary greater than yours in two years. Have a nice day!"
I won't repeat his response, except that it was suitable for Democratic Underground.
And that, friends and neighbors, is how I became the arrogant cocksure conservative bane of liberals I am today.
:-)
A college prof at Mesa College when I was fresh from 8 yrs.
active duty as a Medic. Said in his College English class
that "Vietnam didn't mean nothing. Because We lost." Eight of us walked out as he was speaking to engage debate--he
simply never got over the sixties anti-war movement.
I took care of too many with parts they left in that small
corner to agree with armchair socialists too cowardly to
serve in the uniform of our Country. Thank You Mr.dalereed
for your service to our country--Welcome Home.
:-)
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