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20 Of the Most Obnoxious Quotes From College Professors
Townhall.com ^ | September 21, 2013 | John Hawkins

Posted on 09/21/2013 4:21:04 AM PDT by Kaslin

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I am currently in the MBA program at the University of Washington, and had my “indoctrination” course over the summer. It certainly was not as bad as any of the above, but it was called “Global and Domestic Economic Conditions” which is fancy speak for Macro Economics.

In the first class we had a discussion about Kant, Hayek and Friedman, and then the teacher wanted to “prove” something so she wrote on the board a graph, at which point I asked ... doesn’t that graph only recognize Kantian Theory? At this point she admitted she was a Kantian, but promised to try to show all sides.

Each week we had a quiz (and we were allowed to discuss the quiz with other students before we submitted it). Each quiz had 20 questions, each with 4 options. We were told there was one and only one correct answer for each question. On the very first quiz, I noticed particular wording on a question where there was one answer that was clearly Kantian, and another that took the Monetarist view. I mentioned this to my friend and told him ... well this (monetarist) follows my beliefs, but since the instructor is a Kantian, I bet this is the answer. Sure enough, I was right.

By the 5th quiz I got into a long heated email exchange with the TA over a particular answer to a particular question where the only way to get it “right” is to assume that a congressional aide would have no idea whether a tax bill were intended to be temporary or permanent (my argument that any bill that is not time limited is by definition permanent, and any bill that is time limited is temporary and will remain temporary unless other legislation is passed to extend it or make it permanent did not sway them).

I passed the course, but it was the worst grade that I got in the program to date.


21 posted on 09/21/2013 7:20:58 AM PDT by RainMan (It's mourning in America.)
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To: Kaslin

Communists and Marxists.
If weren’t for the college industry these people would be lucky to get a job shoveling horse manure off a truck in Kentucky.


22 posted on 09/21/2013 7:40:24 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

You said it


23 posted on 09/21/2013 7:43:05 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
I would have thought that the most obnoxious thing said by college professors was

"No, it won't be an open-book exam."

24 posted on 09/21/2013 7:54:53 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin

I think all these perfessers should be put on an island somewhere with few resources, buck naked, and left behind for a few years. Call it a sociology experiment.


25 posted on 09/21/2013 8:54:31 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Grams A
I was shocked to hear a broadcaster on the Weather Channel refer to the storm as one of “Biblical proportions”.

Not me. Y'know, like, the Bible is like a really BIG book, like with lots of words and stuff, y'know, and it was like, y'know, a really big mess.

/s, of course

Yes, I managed to type that with a straight face...well, almost.

26 posted on 09/21/2013 9:12:21 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Wildbill22
Unfortunately when ideologues are in a position of power they attempt to use that power to simply shut up the free thinker, and shut down the discussion.

I think it would be fun to enroll in their classes for the express purpose of asking questions to rattle their cages (and maybe get some of the younger students thinking critically). If you aren't there for the degree, they have no power over you except to flunk you--and who cares!

Boy, that would frost their little cookies (and maybe awaken some of their students).

The liberal education establishment will not go away by itself. It is time to go on the offensive.

27 posted on 09/21/2013 9:15:41 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Sherman Logan
They didn't died so that their people might live-- in any condition. Their acts directly caused the deaths of tens of thousands of "their people" in Iraq and Aghanistan. They died because they identified with a criminally insane cult.
28 posted on 09/21/2013 11:11:30 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Kaslin

What a bunch of hate packed bitter souls.

I’m more sad than I am mad. If they yielded to the Lord, He could send their demons packing back to hell before you could say In God We Trust. Their problem can be solved if they are willing. Hell can’t be negotiated with, however. It has to be rebuffed, attacked, and crushed.


29 posted on 09/21/2013 11:13:28 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Lakeshark
I believe Zinn-inspired "history" books are still being used in public schools.
30 posted on 09/21/2013 11:13:36 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: SunkenCiv

Regarding #6 above, we DO have an intifada; it’s called the Tea Party Movement. If the Left doesn’t recognize it as such, it must be because (1) the participants are civilized human beings, (2) it is better organized, and (3) the Left doesn’t control it.


31 posted on 09/21/2013 11:19:16 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Kaslin
On September 11, 2001, nineteen Arab hijackers too demonstrated their willingness to die – and to kill – for their dream. They died so that their people might live, free and in dignity. -- Shahid Alam, Northeastern University

Islam is a religion AND a political system. The political part is totally incompatible with freedom and dignity. Shahid Alam is nuts.

32 posted on 09/21/2013 11:39:41 AM PDT by GOPJ ( Politicians who fear the people seek to disarm them. - - Bill St. Clair)
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To: Kaslin
And this goes double for Muslims and their sympathizers:

"No Communist, Fascist, or any other totalitarian committed to the destruction . . . of the principles and practices of democracy should be permitted to teach in a democracy. Freedom does not imply freedom to destroy freedom." -- Dr. Clarence R. Decker, President of the University of Kansas City, 1949

33 posted on 09/21/2013 12:01:34 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: hinckley buzzard

That’s your perspective, and mine FTM, on why they died.

They viewed it quite differently.


34 posted on 09/21/2013 12:20:02 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
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To: Right Wing Assault
I think Bill Ayers is rich. Shouldn't we break up his cars? I don't think he lives in an apartment, but shouldn't we break up his house? It was his command. Must Obey Bill Ayers!

Too much work, I'd opt for a claymore mine outside his front door.

35 posted on 09/21/2013 1:36:41 PM PDT by Kenton
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To: Kenton
Regarding: Bill Ayers and Bernedette Dohrn

That these two are alive and well ( and professionally and financiall thriving) is an indication of one of two things;

1) Profound respect for rule of law by Americans.

2) We as a nation, as a people, are beyond saving and are ripe for a swift and serious fall.

36 posted on 09/21/2013 1:40:32 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: Kaslin
Nearly every teacher in this nation was trained by godless Marxists in Marxist run colleges and universities.

This includes:

K-12 private and government institutional schools.
Colleges and university Undergraduate through graduate schools
Nursery school ( Yep! It starts that young. )

Vladamire Lenin: “.. Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted. “

( No,..... that does not mean that every teacher in this nation is a Marxist, but their training **does** effect the classroom and what is taught and how it is taught. )

37 posted on 09/21/2013 1:50:41 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: Sherman Logan

Maybe we should ask Orwell.


38 posted on 09/21/2013 1:51:55 PM PDT by wintertime
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To: wintertime
We as a nation, as a people, are beyond saving and are ripe for a swift and serious fall.

So fall already since you are so full of FAIL.

39 posted on 09/21/2013 4:11:49 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: Kenton
Too much work, I'd opt for a claymore mine outside his front door.

For me, that would be step two. I would love to see the look on his and Bernardine's faces when they comes home to a trashed house (not done by me of course), complete with graffiti. Then, a few days later, when they moved to a new place, step two, but a weak one (not done by me of course) that wouldn't take them out too quickly.

I'm big on someone (not me of course) letting the guy know why he is expiring.

40 posted on 09/21/2013 5:45:37 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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