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My NYU teacher tried to indoctrinate the class yesterday (vanity)
11/15/2008

Posted on 11/14/2008 10:32:33 PM PST by GreaterSwiss

I am taking a continuing education business class at NYU. Well last night after we reviewed the teacher (the course is almost over), he gave us a 15 minute rant.

-Paul Krugman is a genuis and predicted everything. -More Regulation is needed -Reagan on was a bad period. We need to get back to the 70s -Barney Frank will help make things better -Community Reinvestment Act did nothing to this situation -Fannie & Freddie were only bit players

Then a girl in the class added she's so happy now since we are going from a stupid president to a smart president..

I am thinking of not going for the final class. I hold 2 masters so I don't need the class for anything just personal development. The last time I had a teacher like this, I got a 97 on the final and a B in the class.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: academia; education; highereducation; leftismoncampus; nyu; publikskoolz
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To: Arizona Carolyn
Must have heard that guy on Imus this week going on and on about Obama being the smartest president ever... when Imus pressed him on how he knew this his reply was you can just tell... In other words, no empirical evidence, just ODS.

He reads well off a teleprompter. What more evidence do you need?

41 posted on 11/15/2008 3:18:51 AM PST by sphinx
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To: She hits a grand slam tonight
no, you don’t understand the college indoctrination.

Kind of like how you don't understand capitalization.

i was & still am as of today 4.0 only because i dropped the class

You should take a writing class instead.

42 posted on 11/15/2008 3:24:11 AM PST by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: humblegunner; She hits a grand slam tonight
HumbleGunner is giving you good advice. This ain't text messaging here.
Write correctly if you want people to read what you want to say.
43 posted on 11/15/2008 3:44:34 AM PST by Tainan (Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
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To: demoskowitz
My NYU teacher tried to indoctrinate the class yesterday

What did you expect?

44 posted on 11/15/2008 3:59:27 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (The Democratic Party strongly supports full civil rights for necro-Americans.)
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To: demoskowitz
Some of us had to listen to the "global cooling" freako profs in the 1970s.

Then there were the "overpopulation" profs.

My favorite profs were the "you don't know anything is true" ones.

When asked how they knew _that_ they would just turn beet red and walk away.

:-)

Many universities pay insane people to rant--quite a gig if you can get it.

;-)


45 posted on 11/15/2008 4:01:28 AM PST by cgbg ("The Second Great Depression, popularly known as 'The Obamanation'....")
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To: cgbg
Some of us had to listen to the "global cooling" freako profs in the 1970s.

Oh, yeah! My geology lecturer was adamant that by the 1990's, most humans were going to be dead (or would wish they WERE dead), the remnant perched high on some ice shelf, huddled miserably around a small fire and dressed in the skins of whatever animals were still left to kill.

I have no doubt that he managed to become a loyal member of Al Gore's global warming brigade without putting undue strain on his credulity tendon.

Mr. niteowl77

46 posted on 11/15/2008 4:25:47 AM PST by niteowl77 (The niteowl77s: parents who support those who support their soldier.)
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To: demoskowitz
Your rant leaves me with several questions:

You don't expect professors where you are to hold liberal points of view?

Nobody argued with the professor, including you?

What do you care what he says about the election? Does that affect his knowledge of whatever you hoped to learn from him by taking the class?

Could you have walked out during the rant, since you "don't need the class" anyway? If so, why didn't you?

47 posted on 11/15/2008 4:29:55 AM PST by Amelia
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To: demoskowitz

Just in case you haven’t see this yet, email this article to them.

Waltzing on the Titanic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132568/posts

American Thinker ^ | November 15, 2008 | Larrey Anderson

Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 6:14:59 AM by vietvet67


48 posted on 11/15/2008 4:43:18 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Bail Out / Ba rock O = Bend Over [BOHICA])
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To: She hits a grand slam tonight
Please use caps. It helps. i dropped the class of an afro-centric teacher in my last english class

What does this mean? Is there a class within a class? How can you drop an F and get an A?

49 posted on 11/15/2008 4:55:56 AM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: FlyVet
"– was once romantically involved with a Fannie Mae executive."

Thanks do know what you have done... Barney Frank in a relationship....

thats going to be at least $120 in lap dances to have that graphic suppressed in my brain housing group!

dang your eyes.

50 posted on 11/15/2008 4:57:27 AM PST by SERE_DOC (Todays politicians, living proof why we have and need a second amendment to the constitution.)
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To: demoskowitz
We need to get back to the 70s

One thing that I wish for from the 1970s - I remember my mother getting a 10 year bank CD that paid 17% interest! Of course, the rest of the economic situation is what made that level of interest possible, so no, I NO NOT want to see THAT again!

Mark

51 posted on 11/15/2008 5:01:22 AM PST by MarkL
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To: Right Wing Assault

I think “grand slam” was taking a satirical dig at his/ her college experiences.


52 posted on 11/15/2008 5:05:14 AM PST by mdmathis6 (I'm Mike the RN!( I often do plumbing of a different sort))
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To: cgbg
My favorite profs were the "you don't know anything is true" ones.

When asked how they knew _that_ they would just turn beet red and walk away.

Ayn Rand had interesting things to say about those people...

Mark

53 posted on 11/15/2008 5:06:38 AM PST by MarkL
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To: She hits a grand slam tonight

“i need to seek counseling & my opinions are unwelcome on college campuses”

What school is this?


54 posted on 11/15/2008 5:13:54 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: cgbg

“My favorite profs were the “you don’t know anything is true” ones.

When asked how they knew _that_ they would just turn beet red and walk away.”

That reminds me of this...
Teacher: There is no such thing as absolute truth.
Student: Are you absolutely sure?


55 posted on 11/15/2008 5:15:53 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: demoskowitz

I had almost exactly the opposite experience a few years back in an international business class. The class was mandatory for both the B-School students AND the Intl Relations students. There was about a 3-1 ratio of B-school to IR.

The IR students came in spouting all sorts of stuff about the evils of Globalization, how the European countries were SO much more enlightened on economic and labor issues (read: socialism and institutionalized laziness).

The professor, with the help of some of us B-Schoolers, kicked their a**es. Much to their chagrin, since they obviously expected everyone else in the class to just automatically agree with them. It also helped that the prof had been a dissident in Eastern Europe during the Cold War and was an unrepentant capitalist and free-market believer.


56 posted on 11/15/2008 5:22:56 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: demoskowitz
Do your homework, get for fact straight, stand up and debate him in the next class....

One caviat, get a good friend to film it on a hand held digital cam quarter and then post the debate on You-Tube.

Weenies like this cannot stand the debate, put the heat on.

I am not taking classes at this point, but the last couple, when a canard was thrown out like the rich get loopholes I spoke up.

57 posted on 11/15/2008 5:24:23 AM PST by taildragger (The Answer is Fred Thompson, I do not care what the question is.....)
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To: mdmathis6
I think “grand slam” was taking a satirical dig at his/ her college experiences.

That's the only explanation that makes sense. The problem is that it was TOO realistic.

58 posted on 11/15/2008 5:27:23 AM PST by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: taildragger
P.S.....

Ask Dr K why Dodd and Frank brought the entire world to their knees by violating the rule against "Moral Hazard" with the GSA?

Here is an instance were a Gov't Hybrid slipped through their own regs ( Act's of 33', 34' and 40') and put the entire world at risk.

A free market needs a modecum of Gov't oversight in order for it to be moral and fair. This beast and Hedge Funds have none.

59 posted on 11/15/2008 5:27:54 AM PST by taildragger (The Answer is Fred Thompson, I do not care what the question is.....)
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To: demoskowitz

The last time I’ve had that was when I was in undergraduate over 15 years ago. It wasn’t nearly as bad. It was mostly the feminist who made us write stories about female struggle,abuse,men etc. Although it was irritating. I was an English major.


60 posted on 11/15/2008 5:53:00 AM PST by teacherbarbie (I would go into politics, but I like to keep my youthful looks.)
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