[AnotherUnixGeek]

That said, sometimes as a student, you have to "parrot" back to the professor what he wants to hear.

This was true even when I was in school in the late '80s - early '90s. If you want a good grade in a required poli-sci or humanities course, go along with the lecturer's obvious point of view.

[The Sons of Liberty]

his was true even when I was in school in the late '80s - early '90s. If you want a good grade in a required poli-sci or humanities course, go along with the lecturer's obvious point of view.

Not only true in college (undergrad), but more so in grad schools and especially seminaries; hence so-called "mainstream churches" i.e. Episcopal Church USA, push gay marriage, abortion, etc.