[moodyskeptic]

good work Stuart! Captures the snotty professorial attitude perfectly.

[BuddhaBrown]

Some egos are simply too big to not fail.

[arthurus]

"Professor" Obama, who "schools" the ignorant at home and abroad

Woodrow Wilson redux but with far more power and resources. WW got us the Great War. The Kenyan is going to get us a Greater War and it is uncertain which side we will be on when the shooting starts in earnest.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Spot on! Also, the gap between how smart many academics think they are, and reality, is huge. I'd love to see how “Berkeley Dean Christopher Edley, Jr.” would do in a physics, physical chemistry, or mathematics class rather than some subjective BS law school class.

[AndrewB]

On the other hand, death by Mary Ann wouldn't be all that bad...

[Melas]

I couldn’t read past the part where he called Larry the Cable Guy a theoretician. This crew might be as arrogant as they come, but this guy hates the educated. No thanks.

[The Great RJ]

I'm a college professor and do not have an ivy league degree by any means. My goal is to instill in my students critical thinking. Just because some Harvard professor tells you this is the way it is or some TV news anchor condescendingly explains why any "intelligent" person should think this way or that "everybody knows this to be true" you should never accept that but look at the facts and draw your own conclusions from analysis.

I am currently teaching macroeconomics and have exposed my students to articles by Walter E. Williams and commentary from the Von Mises Institute as well as articles from the Economic Times and UK Telegraph. All I ask students to do is read these articles and express their opinion as part of weekly forums. I have been amazed at the responses I get from students. Many comment that they never have been exposed to anything like this before and are surprised that the conservative ideas they are reading make sense to them. Unlike the Ivy League types I just encourage my students to look at the facts and think. My hope is that one of my students someday gets elected to Congress or at least are better voters.

[MissNomer]

My favorite quote: “It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a Harvard Ph.D. to raise the consciousness of a nation of village idiots.”

[driftless2]

Many members of Obama’s admin reminds me of the lefty profs I had in college. A lot of them were very nice people, but totally consumed by “injustice” and making things “right” for the vast lumpenproletariat. Most kids either secretly laughed at them or ignored them. The ones who lapped it up became members of Obama’s admin.

[opentalk]

bump

[astyanax]

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." — Yogi Berra
I found this graph particularly interesting:

[bamahead]

Welcome to government by professor. Assorted faculty of Ivy League schools have come together to form an administration with the least real-world and most academic experience of any in modern times. And so we have a government of scolds, lecturers, and bullies, arrogant academics cheered on by mainstream media when they take a "paddle" to average citizens and taxpayers.



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Actual Conversation in a College Classroom 40 YEARS ago between ME (Student) and the Prof (a Dr. of Psychology)

Prof: All babies are breast fed till they are a certain age.

Me: That is not true. I am the oldest of six, and NONE of us were breast-fed. My mother used bottles.

Prof: OF COURSE you were Breast fed, and so were all the others! Your Mother just never told you because she is modest and ashamed.

Me: You are WRONG. I help raise my 5 brothers and sisters, and I HELD the BOTTLES!

Prof: You don’t know what you are talking about! My friend is a Nurse at Boston Childrens Hospital, and SHE says all Babies are BREAST FED!

Me: When they decide to Install a MATERNITY WARD at Boston Childrens Hospital, then I will consider YOUR FRIEND an AUTHORITY on the matter.

At that point the class was laughing so hard, he had to dismiss everyone.

I was a trouble maker even then.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

This is different than the Kennedy administration how exactly?

[SunkenCiv]

...in this, the transformative age of the president the New York Times and Washington Post has called "Professor" Obama, who "schools" the ignorant at home and abroad. Never before have so many with so little humility gathered together in our government, each believing he "is the smartest guy in the room."

So little humility, and so few authentic credentials. Thanks neverdem.