Posted on 03/04/2006 1:39:56 AM PST by JohnHuang2
[Professor Harvey Mansfield] "What you see today at Harvard and elsewhere are a lot of liberal males who are trying to make women happy by trying to treat them as if they weren't women." "And that," says the man who never misses the chance to open a door for a woman or help her put on her coat, "doesn't work very well." So why didn't he simply write a book on gentlemanliness? "Because before you're a gentleman, you have to be a man. Gentlemanliness is a refinement. It presupposes that you have a certain superiority over women, but teaches you how to exercise it. It also teaches you that women are superior in their ways."
Nine years ago, when Mr. Mansfield offered his first seminar on manliness, I barely managed to score a seat in the small classroom. So many campus feminists had crowded in that students were forced to sit on the floor. These women saw their opportunity, finally, to have it out with the conservative bogeyman. But Mr. Mansfield got the best of them. He proceeded to talk for much of the next two hours about the ancient Greek notion of thumos, or spiritedness, an idea he believes is the precursor of modern-day manliness. The feminists were bored silly--almost none returned the following week.
Despite his statements outside the classroom, Mr. Mansfield sees his role of professor very differently from that of provocateur. His classes rarely descend into debates over current affairs. Arguments from Plato may not convince these "educated women" that he is right, but unlike Larry Summers, Mr. Mansfield has tenure.
Reminding us why we have tenure laws. It is to keep some yahoo from defaming a teacher for scholarly opinions, NOT to allow him to burden students with political diatribes.
What do you think would happen if he just stuck to the material to be taught?
So I sent him an E-Mail: ............... Here's his answer:
"And finally, as I prefer to take personal emails in my personal email account -- please email . . . if you have any further questions or concerns."
It seems that, since e-mails in a public Government insitution may be monitored, your Bush-hating public school history teacher is getting a little nervous that a taxpayer is challenging his inappropriate use of a public school class room.
A "private" e-mail deals with family, friends, personal matters, etc. Your e-mail dealt strictly with the inappropriate conduct by a public employee on his public job and was sent, appropriately, to his e-mail account at his place of public employment.
If I were you, I would point that out to that public school teacher in an e-mail reply to his public school e-mail address with cc's to the Principal of the public school, every member of the School District Board, the Editor of you local paper and every one of your State representatives.
Libs are aother boards are calling him a hate-filled Hitler Jugend...
Yet I have no one that will explain to me how ideology applies to MAP READING!
Is there a Stalinist Ideological way to look at Driving Directions? Do Maoists look at Mountain ranges in a different light than Capitalists?
And I've read the Colorado State Teaching Standards for Geography. No where in it does it state that "Bush Is Hitler!!" is part of the approved standard...
Can someone help me with this??
The lying lies a liberal teacher tells
More fitting headline: THE LYING LIES LIBERAL TEACHERS TELL!!!
Fantastic catch.
By Henry Wallace?
Very good advice.
I've done that on a number of occasions. They're really getting to hate the internet ; ) , deciding it was much better to discuss issues 'in person'. I usually said I didn't have the time.
And .. as someone on FOX noted .. it was a chance to get out of school .. what kid wouldn't want to do that ..?? The media is trying to make the public believe ALL THOSE KIDS supported the teacher. It was actually only a handful who supported him.
Which classrooms?
I recorded my lectures during college, and nobody ever said anything, and I didn't ask for "permission". I had tendonitis, and couldn't write.
"And I've read the Colorado State Teaching Standards for Geography. No where in it does it state that "Bush Is Hitler!!" is part of the approved standard..."
Allow me to help. You must go to the addendums approved and provided by the NEA and DNC.
"Level playing field with the understanding of what game you're currently playing."
Now, THAT is a quote to remember.
He wasn't hired to teach his "opinion".
Nice work.
I didn't know he included Israel in his rant. That's interesting...
I usually say that my blood-sucking lawyers like it better when I document everything. ;-)
I don't tell them THAT! That takes all the intrigue out of it! LOL!
I think his profile was just a joke. I think the teacher responded to you fairly and fairly nicely.
The other side of the political aisle is terminally humorless. Let's not become that way!
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