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.

[Cathryn Crawford]

Well, I'm not a big fan of not taking classes just because they're liberal. Fight back! Drive the professors crazy.

[zook]

They're not all like this. But UT has a rep as leaning left. There's a lot of ideological diversity in the field of education, but you have to dig to find quality ideas. 95% of education literature and research is either propaganda or worthless.

[cornelis]

The atmosphere is quite literally suffocating.

I'll pray for you, but I'm afraid your situation is more like Job. Put on your sackloth and ashes. If you're not the tragic kind, drop the class and laugh.

[theDentist]

Keep asking why? why? why? and asking for her sources for statistics, facts, or anything else. Tell her you learned from the Clintons to clarify to parse everything.

[Ex-Dem]

Ah. History. Now that is a problem. In that case, consider transferring to a more conservative university.

[Pyro7480]

I was a history major too. I also majored in political science.

[Cathryn Crawford]

I can't drop the class. I have to have the hours for my scholarship.

[GovernmentShrinker]

All that I've ever heard of are this bad. Have fun, take thorough notes, and write a whopper of an expose for the school newspaper after it's over.

I had a college friend who went on to get a Ph.D. in "Education" at Stanford. We had dinner one night when she was in NYC doing her field work in the NYC public schools, developing a new teacher training program. She had completely lost her mind. She said to me with a perfectly straight face "Our philosophy is that there are no bad teachers; all teachers have strengths, and our program is designed to bring out those strengths".

[marron]

I honestly think that Education curriculum should be taken in graduate school only, after the future teacher has taken a degree in some solid course of study.

Teachers who studied "Education" in lieu of getting an education is perhaps part of how we got to where we are.

[Ex-Dem]

I assume she doesn't want to fail the class...

[Cathryn Crawford]

No, I want an A, dammit.

[SF Republican]

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[Prospero]

Yes, Cathryn, you can expect more of the same.

The lost secret can be found with an understanding of philosophies of education.

There are many, including 'experimentalism,' of which so-called 'Progressive Education' is but one species.

Progressive Education, propounded by John Dewey a century ago, dominates the education departments of every teaching institution in the United States. You are not looking for a teaching degree, but if you were, you would have to buy this one variety of one philosophy of education to get a teaching degree.

It didn't happen overnight, but that's the demon that lies at the heart of our sorry education system.

It allows for no alternative, at it is even alien to the tenses at the heart of the English language.

If we began today, it would take thirty years to displace.

[Psycho_Bunny]

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Although that would be cool.

I'm thinking a shirt with a picture of Bush pointing from the podium with the words "We're going there to kick a$$ and chew bubble-gum...and we're all out of bubble-gum" might be kind of cool too.

[radiohead]

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.

LOL! Business classes are generally apolitical as well.

[KarlInOhio]

"Our philosophy is that there are no bad teachers; all teachers have strengths, and our program is designed to bring out those strengths".

I had a couple of teachers whose strengths were limited to converting glucose and oxygen into heat, carbon dioxide and water.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Howdy,

I've read some of your stuff (on TownHall maybe) and just wanted to say that I enjoy your work. Keep it up.

FReegards

[Cathryn Crawford]

I was just curious to see if it was common or if it was just my crazy, insane professor.

One of her problems is that she considers herself to be so Europeanized. She was born in Ecuador, but moved to Europe at a young age and she constantly discusses the "marvelous" education that she recieved there.

All this while I'm sitting in the back making barfing noises.

[tallhappy]

I think so yes.

I think this is the biggest contributer to the problems we face.

This is why vouchers are so important now because this trend in "education" isn't going to end.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Yes. All education classes are liberal. It is the agenda of the NEA. IF you need fuel for your arguments look on their web site for the most outrageous load of cr@p you will ever see. Ask the homeschoolers here what they think of "education" ,umm.... I mean indoctranation classes offered by universities. BTW, Why do you have to take an education class at all?