My Life With The Academic Left

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | January 15, 2004 | Professor Frances B. Cogan

[FreedomPoster]

>>There is no reason for anyone study liberal arts today, if this is a sample of the course contents.

Exactly. Son is headed towards engineering, I wouldn't mind if he headed towards accounting, like his mother, either.

I would not help finance a Liberal Arts degree, at least at 98% of the colleges and universities out there.

[goodnesswins]

Interesting story about the University "system"....interesting to that this person votes LIBERTARIAN. Sheesh.

[goodnesswins]

Just had a thought....wouldn't it be great to have a FREE REPUBLIC UNIVERSITY?

[7thson]

The story is called "It's A Good Life"

It's a Good Life

Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby

Director: James Sheldon

A six-year-old boy holds a town in terror with his powers to change or destroy anyone or anything at will.

CAST: Billy Mumy, Cloris Leachman, Alice Frost, Jeanne Bates, Casey Adams, John Larch, Tom Botcher, Don Keefer, Lenore Kingston.

This was one of the stories done in the movie version of Twilight Zone. Basically, what happened is that when the boy is born, the doctor was so aghast at the evil exuding from the creature that he was about to kill it. Protecting itself from the danger, the thing transmported itself and the town to another demision and kept these people there to serve him. Anything or anyone that irked him was sent to the cornfield, and in the short story they actually described what happens in the cornfield.

I know this is way off topic of the original post, but I always liked the original TZ and always felt that the stories dealt with "mutants" earlier than Marvel did.

[arjay]

I was in Texas Tech in the early sixties. I was even in AFROTC. There were no demonstrations, no uprisings and no real criticism.

Most of the students I knew did not like Kennedy, although most were really apathetic about politics.

It was a totally different culture and experience from what many of you describe. It was certainly opposite to what the author described.

[stainlessbanner]

bump for later

[goodnesswins]

My husband and I have decided to forego any "educational" funds for grandson because I hate what the "educational system" has become.....we will set up a "retirement fund" or some kind of CAPITALISTIC fund instead, if he gets anything at all! Either that, or MANDATE attendance at Hillsdale College in Michigan!

[Agnes Heep]

I know this is way off topic of the original post, but I always liked the original TZ ...

I've always been amazed at what they could do in black-and-white medium with such a dearth of special effects. Could it be that intellectually challenging themes and good script writing are superior to technological sleight-of-hand?

[FreedomPoster]

There are some good conservative liberal arts colleges to be found. Hillsdale in MI, and Stetson in FL, come to mind.

[FreedomPoster]

I posted my #29 before I saw your #27.

Did you know Pat Sajak is (or was recently, if he isn't now) on the board at Hillsdale? Interesting trivia factoid.

[ladylib]

That was one scary episode.

[goodnesswins]

Your experience is what I'm hoping is happening, (rebellion) but because of the hypocrisy of the left, conservatives have FEW rights on most college campii- they are shouted down as just wrong....and a college student isn't always as self assured and strong in their beliefs as you. (Especially the women.)

[ladylib]

It filtered down to the high schools, too. We had walkouts, bomb threats, anti-war demonstrations, riots -- the whole thing.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Nice post!

[Paulus Invictus]

Marvelous stuff! Prof. Cogan needs a huge vote of appreciation from Freepers. How do we do that by email?

[AmishDude]

"These women were not just confused about science. They were against it."

They were probably intimidated by it. Call it "protractor envy". A truth I have discovered in academia: Those who can do math, do science. Those who cannot do math go into the humanities.

[ryanjb2]

Luckily, I go to an engineering college. Leftism does exist on campus, but not much.

Not all hope is lost. Out of the two required American history classes I have taken, one was well balanced and taught well, the other was fairly anti-American. The book (required) seemed like it was written by Karl Marx himself.

[Scenic Sounds]

Why is it that guys like this (a well-educated professor) are always at a loss to communicate specifically what in the hell they are talking about?

Though there is no official speech code, there is a silent but perceptible feeling in many University’s [sic] classrooms that only specific subjects deserve discussion . . .

Wouldn't it help to know what specific subjects this man is talking about?

that certain words should not be said . . .

What certain words is he talking about? Were the "words" excluded from this column because they are words that Horowitz won't permit to be used at his website?

nor a variety of well-known topics truly explored.

What specific topics is he being forbidden to explore?

How can anyone make this professor happy if hasn't figured out or won't share with us his specific problems?

[saveliberty]

Wow! And neither "parent" ever apologized for being an advocate of murder.