Posted on 12/16/2008 6:42:52 AM PST by Shellybenoit
Isidor I. Rabi, the Nobel laureate in physics was once asked, ''Why did you become a scientist, rather than a doctor or lawyer or businessman, like the other immigrant kids in your neighborhood?''
His answer should be framed and put on the wall of every classroom in America. Dr. Rabi's answer, ''My mother made me a scientist without ever intending it. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: 'So? Did you learn anything today?' But not my mother. She always asked me a different question. 'Izzy,' she would say, 'did you ask a good question today?' That difference - asking good questions -made me become a scientist!''
The role of a teacher arguably the most important role in a free society. It is the teacher who shows our kids how to explore, probe and ask questions, in short how to learn. In the vast majority of cases teachers do not try to legislate their personal political opinions on our kids, they simply spur our children to explore for themselves.
Some educators, though are dangerous, these supposed academics are not teaching our kids to learn and question, but are attempting to create little clones of their liberal minds They hide behind tenure- a guaranteed job for life, and THEIR concept of academic freedom to make sure our kids get only one side of the story.
Below are ten examples of the ABUSE of academic freedom compiled by the YAF:
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