Posted on 03/11/2006 6:40:11 PM PST by Graybeard58
Conservative pundits love to lecture liberals on "personal responsibility" and "government interference in our daily lives." Apparently it's just rhetoric. Republicans are now taking aim at free speech in our universities by proposing to give students the power to censor their teachers when they feel offended. I wonder if they are even aware of the irony as they attack the very thing our flag represents. How about a solution to the threat of "liberalism" more in line with conservative rhetoric? If our children are mature enough to fight and die in our wars, certainly they can take personal responsibility for thinking, debating, and defending themselves in a classroom.
The extremely rare appearance of pornography in a classroom can already be addressed at the local level. That isn't the problem. It is the liberal bias that bothers conservatives. But instead of promoting more "government interference in our daily lives," conservatives should ask themselves why the free market has produced this bias. How has our democracy nurtured it? Why don't more conservatives' children work at difficult, expensive degrees to take low-paying teaching jobs? And why does the intense examination of diverse ideas -- history, science, literature, and art -- lead many people to a more liberal world view?
A mediocre intellect, a refusal to accept personal responsibility, and an utter inability to manage the rules of simple logic, for a start.
Sure.....Republicans invented the whole "I'm offended, so you can't say that!" thing......
Just what you would expect from a LIBERAL university town.
Dang! You beat me to the punch. I was going to suggest Karl Marx or deep ignorance.
Diagnosis: leftitis. Indicated treatment: mugging by reality, or large enemas every 30 minutes until visible improvement [and then some].
I wonder who liberals will feel is a math teacher started telling his students that Darwin was wrong.
This is a hoot. The whole educational system is biased liberal and most of us have moved on and have pretty much accepted that fact. Is someone calling Bush Hitler just an example of "liberal bias"? Apparently the author is not smart enough to understand the indefensible position that places his argument in. he he he
If they would bother to check at the local university, they would see that it is Conservative, not Liberal, viewpoints that are not represented. But what can you expect from a newspaper? They all cover the same stories, and they cover them the exact same way. No wonder the news seems identical day after day.
I realized that I was smarter than my teachers about in about the 5th grade. Many (not all) of them couldn't handle a job with requirements and expectations.
The smartest person in my high school (I never could best her!) became a teacher. She lasted about a year until she gave up because competence was shunned and mediocrity was rewarded...
Having fewer than three brain cells.
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Dain bramage?
The birkenstocks, the vw or prius, the "Sierra Club" bumper sticker and lack of makeup or heels (on the female of the species) are usually dead giveaways to me....
I have no desire to read the article...yet since the title is a question here's the simple answer- complete stupidity...
My god. I have no more.
Studying diverse ideas is great, but you should understand your own civilization and its founding ideas first. That's the step liberals (or people who become liberals) seem to skip. They have no anchor and so they drift in the direction of liberalism, which is the default destination of anchorless people.
Give me a freaking break! It is this woman's liberals who are busy enacting and enforcing "speech codes" on college campuses throughout the country to ensure that no one (at least of favored liberal groups) will be offended by anybody else's free speech. And look what they did to President Summers of Harvard! Look at the pies thrown at the likes of Ann Coulter and others.
Thomas Sowell's "Inside American Education" documents numerous ways teachers attack parental authority.
Teachers have asked third-graders, "How many of you ever wanted to beat up your parents?"
In a high school health class, students were asked, "How many of you hate your parents?"
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