I've thought this for a long time. US universities have become a fall back position for the radical left - where all the 60's idealists decided to park their useless rears and enjoy a nice cushy jobs, free from the realities of the working world.
These types of professors have killed the learning process right at the root - critical thinking. They consistently have the left bent conclusion they want to arrive at and then gather up data around them to support their conclusion. They vehemently oppose other potential ideas even if they may have been arrived at through unbiased observation and testing. They aren't teaching students how to learn, instead they are force-feeding ideas from one particular viewpoint. They are complete and utter failures at teaching and equipping our youth with critical thinking skills, which has done this country a great disservice.
What these types of professors don't seem to grasp is that Academia is not the real world, it's a vacuum where idealistic scenarios can exist on paper and chalkboards. Their students won't have the same luxury of remaining there in that vacuum and collecting a salary. They'll be heading out to the real world, complete with it's survival of the fittest, uber-competitive pressures. A place where idealistic theories break down and yield to practical and realistic solutions that work. There's the way we'd like the world to be, and there's the way it is - to confuse the two when trying to achieve results is committing to failure.
What's the chance of the word 'uber' showing up in the same thead?
Maybe Conservatives are Nazi's at heart???
(just kiddin')
You are missing the point. The collegiate types want their charges to get out into the competitive world, experience it, then start The Revolution when they find out the real world is not anything like what they learned about in college.