Did a Harvard economics class cause the financial crisis? Students walk out of lecture...

Daily Mail ^ | November 7th, 2011 | Lydia Warren

[markomalley]

Full title: Did a Harvard economics class cause the financial crisis? Students walk out of lecture that 'has driven inequalities in society'

So now the OWS folks are demanding indoctrination and silencing freedom of speech.

And will this be carried in the American State-Run-Media?

Don't hold your breath...

[Darteaus94025]

Only Communism can bring equality.

/s

[Explorer89]

But some animals are more equal than others.

[SunkenCiv]

No. Next!

Thanks markomalley.

[tlb]

Assuming this is an advanced Econ class:

Daily class attendance is required of all MBA and cross-registered students. This requirement formalizes the reciprocal responsibilities between students and faculty to be fully prepared for class and to contribute to joint learning. More broadly, it reinforces our belief in education as a shared enterprise. The success of Harvard Business School’s learning model depends upon broad, regular class participation by all students. This, in turn, depends crucially upon regular attendance by all students in all classes.
Excused Absences

Students may be absent from a small number of classes for the following specified reasons without adversely affecting their grades or academic standing:

personal illness: birth or adoption of a student’s child, or the illness or medical needs of a child for whom the student is a primary caretaker
death or serious illness in the close and immediate family
student’s own wedding day, or that of a close and immediate family member
required military service
court summons or jury duty that cannot be postponed
the observance of high religious days

Notice

Students must notify their instructor(s) of any absence in advance by telephone, e-mail, or in person, or, in the case of emergency, as soon as possible afterward. This notice must also be given to Registrar Services, Spangler Center, 2nd Floor (registrar@hbs.edu). Notifying the instructor(s) and Registrar Services does not constitute an excused absence. Even if the absence is excused, students are responsible for satisfying any “make-up” requirements for a missed class.

Failure to provide proper notice may lead to adverse consequences with respect to course grades.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Flunk ‘em all. Or do they just get frowny faces these days in lieu of letter grades?

[silverleaf]

Gee I suggest they drop his class and sign up for
“Wymn’s studies” or “Gay in America” or something more relevant to todays job market

[pepsionice]

It is a curious thing. I’ve watched about a hundred interviews via various news organizations (some internet, some business channels, some regular news). I’ve come away with the opinion that the vast number of people in the Occupy-whatever game....have no basic knowledge of economics. Some pretend to be college-graduates or even in the midst of some MBA program.....but I don’t get the slightest feeling that they could pass a simple Economics 101 test.

So here are these students, who want to be educated in a certain way. I’m pretty sure that they wouldn’t dare want to grasp the fundamentals of capitalism, which makes their education of a questionable value.

[cartan]

As Harvard undergraduates, we enrolled in Economics 10 hoping to gain a broad and introductory foundation of economic theory that would assist us in our various intellectual pursuits and diverse disciplines, which range from Economics, to Government, to Environmental Sciences and Public Policy, and beyond. Instead, we found a course that espouses a specific—and limited—view of economics that we believe perpetuates problematic and inefficient systems of economic inequality in our society today.

Undergraduates criticizing their professor… what makes such student protests always so ridiculous is that these little brats still know nothing about anything (that’s why they are students, not professors. Listen and learn!) yet think they know it all and are entitled to tell their professor how to teach his subject. Why do they believe that anybody cares what they think? Because they are, what, college students? Is that supposed to impress anyone? Sheesh! Learn your subject before you have strong opinions on it! Otherwise, you just look like ridiculous little mutts.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

At the risk of being cited for a Godwin's Law violation, this actually is eerily reminiscent of the Third Reich.

[driftdiver]

I think it was Medved’s show that had one of the protestors from Hawaii. The guy was complaining our monetary system was too focused on monetarism, only he couldn’t even say the word. The stupidity was breathtaking.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

ECON 10, a grad school level class, I don’t think so, more likely entry level. Walkout the result of secendary school indoctrination.

[Gen.Blather]

I was almost thrown out of my college economics class over a discussion on Wal-Mart. A student said that her friend had to take a Wal-Mart job at $12 an hour because she couldn’t get a job in her area using her college degree. She said Wal-Mart ought to pay her friend the going degreed rate for her degree. I said that if her friend couldn’t get a job elsewhere and took the Wal-Mart job that Wal-Mart had no obligation to pay for a degree it couldn’t use. Their arguments were: a degree made the girl a better employee, nobody should be forced to move to get employment, Wal-Mart was just being mean, etc. My arguments were supply and demand.

The professor later told me I had upset all the students and if I didn’t tone down my “political rhetoric” I was out of the class.

[LMAO]

This country is looking more and more like “Atlas Shrugs.”

[rlmorel]

I always try to temper my criticism of young people in college, because it is true that at one point, many of us went through that phase of life.

I know I did. When I went to college, I had the advantage of having grown up in a military family, traveling around the world before I went to college, as well as a four year hitch in the Navy.

But at the age of 21, I am pretty sure I knew exactly what was going on in the world, in my state and the environment around me. I am sure I had strong opinions about a lot of things, and knew with certainty I was right about all of them (probably)

However, there is no substitute for the experience that comes with life. It isn't the only thing in life that gives a fuller understanding, but the key is that life makes you realize just how wrong you can be about many things. And I do believe real wisdom comes from being able to recognize what you don't know.

These snotty nosed kids, who think they have experienced true oppression, who think they aren't being treated fairly because they went to college for four years majoring in "Bitterness Studies" and don't have a $100K job just WAITING for them when they graduate.

Look at this picture of the guy heading up the "Occupy Denver" people (from the website Looking at the Left-Neo-Cannibals, Deadbeats, Dopers and Democrats Occupy Denver ):

This guy with his :dirty face" beard is pretty sure he knows exactly what is wrong with the world in general, and this country in particular, and exactly how to fix it. I am pretty sure he knows neither, but you could never tell him or any of his fevered followers that. They have the certainty that only comes with being a no-load who has not seen enough of life to begin to understand it. This guy below, Bill Whittle, has one of the BEST commentaries I have ever seen on just this subject...It is only a couple of minutes, but I cannot recommend it strongly enough: Bill Whittle: Three and A Half Days

[SumProVita]

Was this a state-run school?

[rlmorel]

Good for you. I can just visualize that conversation. Yeah, I am sure you upset all the students.

When you are young, and certain you know all there is to know, it is a terrible and disillusioning thing to hear the truth.

[SumProVita]

“Some pretend to be college-graduates or even in the midst of some MBA program.....but I don’t get the slightest feeling that they could pass a simple Economics 101 test.”

Neither could any of the current leaders of the Democrat party.

[marygam]

I saw this video the other day from Bill Whittle and sent to all my friends!
grest stuff, simple and logical.

[rlmorel]

"...Their arguments were: a degree made the girl a better employee, nobody should be forced to move to get employment, Wal-Mart was just being mean..."Well, I am sure (to them) that their useless degrees in "bitterness studies" that Bill Whittle referenced to great effect in his video (link above) DO make them better employees, in their little minds. Thing is, Walmart doesn't need them.