Are All Education Classes Liberal?

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[Cathryn Crawford]

I am taking my first and only education class this semester at the University of Texas. I've taken some liberal courses, but this one by far exceeds any previous. Is this standard?

All emphasis seems to be on multicultural education, the horror of vouchers, and the need for schools to be parents.

[Sir Gawain]

Destroy the teacher's arguments.

[Ex-Dem]

Unless you would be willing to switch into the engineering department, then yes, you can expect more of the same.

[Cathryn Crawford]

Destroy the teacher's arguments.

That's the only good part of the class. She doesn't care for dissent, but I have nothing to lose in this class.

[Cathryn Crawford]

I am not an education major. Like I said, this is the one and only ed class I'm taking.

[cornelis]

this is the one and only ed class I'm taking

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[f.Christian]

To liberals ... all conservatives are education failures --- drop outs !

[Cathryn Crawford]

Any comments?

[Blood of Tyrants]

To answer your question, yes. Students will not become teachers until they have been properly indoctrinated and can recite the 10 planks of communism from memory in any order.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I would suggest purchasing an assortment of "IYW" and "CONDI R0x0RZ YER B0x0RZ!" shirts and pins and wearing them on a regular basis.

[Siouxz]

I don't know about education classes, but I started back to school this year after a 17-year absence from the classroom. I HAVE to take an American Literature class. Now, I knew the professor was liberal, just by the way he talked and the things he assigned us to read. I just found out last night that he is the president of the Keystone (PA) Chapter of the ACLU!!!

I much prefer my anatomy and physiology and chemistry classes, which require too much actual teaching of facts, and no time left for the professor to wax poetic on the evils of George W. Bush and the evil white man.

[zlala]

LOL great idea

[Ex-Dem]

I see. Is this class your elective then?

I'm sure they're some safe courses you can take. Any science (bio, chem, physics, etc.), math/statistics, or IT (information systems) class is usually lib-proof.

Economics is a bit iffy. Depends on the professor. Some may try to politicize his/her lectures, some teach it more like a math class.

Pretty much all the other courses are likely to be heavily lib-biased.

[jocon307]

"CONDI R0x0RZ YER B0x0RZ!"

LOL, is there really a shirt like this? My kid would love it.

[Arrowhead1952]

I am taking my first and only education class this semester at the University of Texas.

Enough said. UT is one of the most liberal universities in the US.

[Cathryn Crawford]

I don't know why I found it to be such a shock. The atmosphere is quite literally suffocating.

[cornelis]

LOL OWK for comments.

I bet a course in theology would be better than ed-psych. Even reading Anna Karenina will sufficiently inform what anyone might need to know about the human psyche: she gets run over by a fast train. If that's dissatisfying they can graduate to Ol' Fyodor D.

[Cathryn Crawford]

I'm a history major, economics minor.

[Ex-Dem]

Haven't found that shirt, but I have seen this one:

[petitfour]

I didn't go to UTexas, but the College of Ed courses I took were not all that liberal. I took EdPsych, which is about like any basic psych course. I took Mainstreaming, which was probably a liberal leaning course because the whole concept is liberal, but the course was for preparing teachers for the reality that they could possibly be teaching children who are learning disabled, emotionally conflicted, etc. Then I took some courses that put future teachers in the classroom and gave them some basic experience, shy of student teaching. I thought the courses were pretty much a waste of time. They could have all been combined into ONE course. I began taking courses from Forrest McDonald (a UTexas grad), and he had (has)such disdain for the College of Education. I loved him so much that I changed my major from Education to History and took 7 courses from him. I can imagine how liberals would have a grand time indoctrinating future teachers. Fortunately, I did not have such an experience.