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To: antidemoncrat
I promised myself no longer to indulge in gratuitous sociologist-bashing but this guy is making it hard. The process doesn't just apply to guest speakers on campus. How is anyone ever going to teach a course or ask a question in class in the absence of free speech?

We ran into this difficulty at a university where I used to work. The topic was distance learning, i.e. computerized courses with essentially no interaction (this was a long time ago when the technology didn't support that). The model we couldn't avoid was, "Here's the party line. Memorize it. Here's a test. Pass it. Here's a degree." Absolutely no one in the project wanted to reduce education to that model, but there it was, irreducible and unavoidable. That isn't education, and no progress in any of the pertinent fields is possible if the students and the professor are artificially bounded like that.

So no, a university can't really be turned into a padded playpen where nobody has his or her convictions challenged, all in the name of social comity which is unattainable for human beings anyway. Nor is it a place for therapy. If anyone's little feelings are that easily bruised, perhaps rocking in a fetal position in a darkened room is more appropriate than a classroom.

41 posted on 04/08/2019 11:22:21 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
...at a university where I used to work.

I could have sworn you told us that you were a Tail-Gunner on a Budweiser truck.

46 posted on 04/08/2019 12:00:38 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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