[quadrant]

I don't agree with the article.
My years at college were the most fertile learning experience of my life. My professors taught us how to think, to reason, to express. Many of these men - and they were all men - held strong views of the issues of the day - and in particular on the war in Vietnam.
Yet not one tried to force his views on students, who were encouraged to think for themselves.
The rule in my classes was that one could hold any view, as long as he or she was able to defend it. This attitude forced you to think through opinions and to organize ideas.
I shall always be profoundly grateful to the Department of Government and International Studies at the University of South Carolina.

[fr_freak]

I don't agree with the article.
My years at college were the most fertile learning experience of my life. My professors taught us how to think, to reason, to express. Many of these men - and they were all men - held strong views of the issues of the day - and in particular on the war in Vietnam.

So, you went to school 30+ years ago, and that's your basis for disagreeing with an article that describes the current state of academia? I think you should reflect anew on the quality of your education.

Also, if anyone has to be taught how to think by a college professor, then that person has no business enrolling in higher education. If you don't know how to think by the time you graduate high school, your destiny of academic incompetence is pretty much a done deal. In fact, whenever I hear professors, or teachers of any kind, claim to teach kids how to think, I believe that they really mean that they indoctrinate the living hell out of kids, so that they know how to think "correctly".