Posted on 12/03/2004 12:55:13 PM PST by Ramonan
In his column, "Campuses remain Democratic havens," George Will certainly tries hard to explain why faculty members at our prominent universities are overwhelmingly liberal. But as is often the case with Will, he fails to mention the obvious. These people are liberal because they are intelligent, thoughtful and well-educated. They know something of labor and social history and realize that for most people a return to conditions of the early 20th century would not be in their interest. Finally, they are unpersuaded by slogans like "compassionate conservative" and "ownership society," which are primarily a cover for the transfer of society's wealth into the pockets of the rich.
THOMAS ALDEN Borrego Springs
Demonstrating once again that you can be articulate, educated, powerful and connected yet still have no clue to what is actually going on, Will bemoans the lack of "conservative" thought on college campuses. The first thing that comes to my mind is thank God. If most professors' ideological rudders represented those of the current Republican Party, institutions of higher learning would be teaching creationism as the explanation of man's existence on Earth, ignoring more than a century of anthropological discoveries because they conflicted with biblical teachings. Government studies would renounce labor unions as pseudocommunist fronts, since businesses always do what is best for workers. Law schools would concern themselves primarily with property law, since only owners of property have rights.
CLIFF HANNA San Diego
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Hitler's early support also came from German universities and college students (according to Albert Speer). An education can be invaluable to an individual with common sense, but in fools it leads only to hubris and folly.
Total presence breaks on the univocal predication of the exterior absolute the absolute existent (of that of which it is not possible to univocally predicate an outside, while the equivocal predication of the outside of the absolute exterior is possible of that of which the reality so predicated is not the reality, viz., of the dark/of the self, the identity of which is not outside the absolute identity of the outside, which is to say that the equivocal predication of identity is possible of the self-identity which is not identity, while identity is univocally predicated of the limit to the darkness, of the limit of the reality of the self). This is the real exteriority of the absolute outside: the reality of the absolutely unconditioned absolute outside univocally predicated of the dark: the light univocally predicated of the darkness: the shining of the light univocally predicated of the limit of the darkness: actuality univocally predicated of the other of self-identity: existence univocally predicated of the absolutely unconditioned other of the self. The precision of the shining of the light breaking the dark is the other-identity of the light. The precision of the absolutely minimum transcendence of the dark is the light itself/the absolutely unconditioned exteriority of existence for the first time/the absolutely facial identity of existence/the proportion of the new creation sans depth/the light itself ex nihilo: the dark itself univocally identified, i.e., not self-identity identity itself equivocally, not the dark itself equivocally, in “self-alienation,” not “self-identity, itself in self-alienation” “released” in and by “otherness,” and “actual other,” “itself,” not the abysmal inversion of the light, the reality of the darkness equivocally, absolute identity equivocally predicated of the self/selfhood equivocally predicated of the dark (the reality of this darkness the other-self-covering of identity which is the identification person-self).Methinks the emperor has no clothes.
May have been there, too. But AH predates SoR by 25 years, so the Woodman can probably lay claim.
well-educated ?/yea right ..I went back t college for my Masters a few years ago ..Young punk professors wouldnt be able to graduate my old catholic high school of the 60s..Knowledge of history is nill..Geography is worse..Most I met were brainwashed socialist..Professors DO NOT live in any real world situations..Academia is a sheltered / abstract world..Morons abound ..Now the students ??/WOWOW lets not even start with the new college students I met..Most have a 6th grade reading level and ZERO background in American History and Science
Universities are full of intelligence. Students enter them with wonderful, fresh brains, and leave dumbasses. The unused intelligence just accumulates.
Many of them are liberal because they have never been put in real world situations. They go to 4 years of college straight into 6 years of graduate work and then on to teaching. They are insulated from what happens in the real world while they are surround by the ideals of socialism espoused at universities.
To the Woodman I defer.
It is happening. They are getting desperate and will teach anyone who has the stuff to learn how to think.
If they are liberals in their philosophy, how do we know if they really are good at teaching - unless they are idiot savants.
I've worked with more than one person with several college degrees. The main thing that people who seem to spend their lives furthering their education have in common is the fact that they are incompetent when it comes to actually doing anything practical. My nurse friend knows the "how to" of giving an injection but is terrible at it - and many other things that apply to the nursing field. Education does not neccesarily equal ability or even competence. Also, the problem with liberal college professors is that "what works in theory very often fails in practice." They are too unaware of the complexities and realities of the world outside their little cocoons to ever dare leave acadamia.
EXACTLY !!!!!!! RIGHT ON THE MARK
I hope with the current situation we lean so damn hard on our legislators to finalize and pass voucher programs so that you would never have to consider those 3 jobs it might take to keep them in private school. Now is the time.
As a Mensan, I reiterate what better folk that me have previously observed: some extremely intelligent, highly accomplished people in this world are complete morons outside of their very specific fields of endeavor.
In fact, their pursuit of excellence in a limited field actually may contribute to a myopic view of the world. Liberal professors may be the best example of this phenomena.
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Too true, it is especially tragic when a particularly brilliant, accomplished, and otherwise hardheaded scientist, enterpreneur, etc. makes a complete ass of him/herself by succumbing to the adulation of the public for their legitimate accomplishments and starts spouting off on subjects and involving themselves in dubious causes of which they know nothing. The names are too numerous to mention and it must be admitted that some of the great soviet dissidents could technically qualify as such (Hedrick Smith once interviewed Andrei Sakharov and thought him a bit of a well-meaning airhead). Though I guess in the russians case they knew they would pay a dead-serious price for their involvement and so went in with a better idea of what they were trying to accomplish.
I can think of only a few.
One could say that they are educated beyond their intelligence.
Too true, it is especially tragic when a particularly brilliant, accomplished, and otherwise hardheaded scientist, enterpreneur, etc. makes a complete ass of him/herself by succumbing to the adulation of the public for their legitimate accomplishments and starts spouting off on subjects and involving themselves in dubious causes of which they know nothing.
some extremely intelligent, highly accomplished people in this world are complete morons outside of their very specific fields of endeavor.
ONE OF THE MOST TRUE STATEMENTS I'VE SEEN HERE YET !!!!!
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