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To: Aquinasfan

Yes, they warned us about this when my daughter was preparing to go to college 4 years ago. Fortunately, she's a commuter. Just had breakfast with my husband who is a college professor. He told me that the new required freshman course about getting adjusted and critical thinking (can't remember the name of it) has been changed. Now, to even be allowed to teach it, professors have to take a test of some sort to see if they have the "right attitude" to teach it. This is mandated, apparently, by the textbook company which also provides the test. I met the teacher who taught this course several years ago. As a parent, if I had met him and realized he was going to teach my child such a course, I would reconsider the decision to go there. And this is normally an excellent school. Somehow, I doubt that if conservatives took this attitude test that they would be teaching this course. The battles parents have been having with secondary education has moved to colleges where children are of age and no longer, for the most part, live at home. Beware.


8 posted on 02/06/2007 8:09:52 AM PST by twigs
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To: twigs
He told me that the new required freshman course about getting adjusted and critical thinking...

i.e., moral relativism. True "critical thinking," or logic, as it's been known since Aristotle's day, went out the window in the early '60s.

10 posted on 02/06/2007 8:18:37 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: twigs
children are of age

Which is it?

19 posted on 02/06/2007 8:30:25 AM PST by flada (Posting in a manner reminiscent of Jen-gis Kahn.)
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