Maybe these profs could tell me what culturally diverse civilization condoned murder and theft and survived. The one in which they live seems to be the only one, but I don't think survival can't be judged in the present, only the future. 
Posted on 07/05/2002 12:13:04 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Graduating college seniors say professors in the U.S. consistently teach a post-modern philosophy that there are no uniform standards of right and wrong, according to poll results released by the National Association of Scholars.
A majority of seniors – 73 percent – chose the statement "what is right and wrong depends on differences in individual values and cultural diversity" as the message college and university professors most often transmit. Stephen Balch, president of NAS, says he was surprised by the number of students who were receiving such a message from their teachers.
"We've long had an interest in how cultural trends affect higher education and how higher education, because of them, affects the rest of society," he said. "One of the things that interested and bothered us as an organization is the influence of post-modern thought."
Post-modern thought, Balch says, is the belief that people can have whatever ethics they like, an "anything goes" attitude. The poll, conducted by Zogby International and released on Tuesday, surveyed 401 college and university seniors across the nation. Balch says it showed how "predominant" post-modern thought is among higher-education professors.
"There's deep debates going on in our culture about whether right and wrong has any type of objective standard," Balch told WorldNetDaily.
The professors pass on their personal philosophy of "anything goes" to their students, and to fix the problem you have to go back and change the way professors are being educated, he says.
Students also reported that "recruiting a diverse workforce in which women and minorities are advanced and promoted" is being taught more by professors than is "providing clear and accurate business statements to stockholders and creditors." Balch believes it's "worrisome" that professors are teaching workplace diversity as the most important corporate policy over "old-fashioned honesty."
The belief that right and wrong are "socially constructed" has been conveyed to students for about two decades, says Balch. This type of philosophy may have already taken effect in our current society, he says, as can be seen with the Enron and WorldCom scandals.
Fifty-six percent of students surveyed said getting caught was the only real difference between Enron executives and executives of other big companies.
"That reflects on both our colleges and certainly is disturbing in respect to what the future may hold to basic honesty in American society and business," Balch said.
"Surely in the future, if we send our students into the world with a kind of easy conscience, with the belief that if it feels good it's good, that can't bode well for how any of our institutions are going to perform, whether they be political institutions or business institutions."
Since America's market economy is built on trust, Balch says, the future doesn't look bright for our current economy when the future executives of America seem to have an untrustworthy and undependable attitude.
"One way to better the situation would be to try to get back to the old-fashioned notions of right and wrong," he said.
Although post-modernist professors play a part in molding students' views of ethics, Balch says, the home, early school and church have the primary role in teaching morals.
"Unless we shore up those ethical foundations both at home, in school and in college, I think we may be in some real trouble further down the line," Balch said.
Many are also morons, are rude, and have poor taste in grooming and clothing.
This guy is a little late, methinks. We're already in real trouble, it's just not especially obvious yet.
Tuor
Give me liberty or give me death.
I've had a few that thought bathing is a weekly event.
Maybe these profs could tell me what culturally diverse civilization condoned murder and theft and survived. The one in which they live seems to be the only one, but I don't think survival can't be judged in the present, only the future.
You know the type - uncombed hair, eyes popping out of sockets, goofy look on the face, in the case of females, unshaved armpits...carrying around worn, yellowing,dog-eared, paperback copies of the rantings of Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Fanon, Derrida, Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir... Lecturing in pontifical, condescending tone to anyone who will listen...Ranting and raving about "Eurocentrism" or "phallocentrism." All for about $25K a year now, I guess. Scary. Who can we call? The Ghostbusters?
I think that those cats are sitting at a bar somewhere in France laughing about their joke they pulled off on the American weenie perfesers.
Some ideas are so stupid they could only find believers on a university campus.
An intellectual practical joke is always more fun if you can mix in a few obscure French and German jargon terms.
The one that was actually pretty funny was this stunt Brit musician David Bowie was involved in in creating a fake modern artist which fooled a lot of people. Think there was a book or zine article. Can't recall title. Amusing "art" hoax.
There's something really sinister though about taking tens of thousands of dollars from kids and their families and serving up this postmodern Marxist-Freudian, deconstructive, avant-garde smorgasbord. The people involved in this ought to be jailed for fraud, false advertizing, and reckless endangerment of youth. They screw up a lot of people's lives. Not to mention denying them a real education.
Bowie and Boyd "hoax" art world
"Bowie: Moving Readings about the Artist who Never Was" Some of the biggest names in the art world have reportedly been fooled by a biography of a fake artist created by the author William Boyd and the rock star David Bowie. Last week the glitterati of New York gathered for a launch party of Boyd's biography of the apparently rediscovered American painter Nat Tate.
Bowie, a director of 21 Publishing, the company which produced the book, read extracts to the gathering.
Critics on the other side of the Atlantic were due to attend the British launch of the memoir on Tuesday. Several British papers, including the Sunday Telegraph, have already run extracts from the book.
Excerpts were also published on Bowie's own website.
Fake history
However, the Independent newspaper says Tate and the story of how he befriended painters Picasso and Braque, suffered from depression, burned most of his paintings and then killed himself aged 31, is all fiction.
Some of the paintings pictured in the book were reportedly by Boyd himself. Photos of Tate were from Boyd's own collection of pictures of unidentified people.
The ruse was made more convincing by an endorsement on the book's dust cover from the veteran writer and political commentator Gore Vidal.
In the book he is also quoted as remembering Tate as "essentially dignified, drunk with nothing to say".
John Richardson, the acclaimed biographer of the artist Pablo Picasso, was also in on the scam and is also quoted.
Karen Wright, one of Bowie's co-directors at 21 Publishing said the hoax was not meant to be malicious.
"Part of it was, we were very amused that people kept saying 'Yes, I've heard of him'. There is a willingness not to appear foolish. Critics are too proud for that."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_75000/75207.stm
No. To fix the problem you need to abolish the tenure system, fire these ageing 60s student radicals who now chair the university faculties with extreme prejudice and leave them to die alone in the gutter, penniless and without hope, since they cannot function in the real world outside the hallowed halls of academia.
I'd suggest they all be sent to the gallows, but I'm feeling generous today. (FBI types who monitor this site -- chill out, it's a joke.)
I'm with you on your sentiments about paying good money to educate your kids with this drivel. I made it through UofM in the seventies with a minimum of soft classes and got a good education. I'm worried about sending my kids into the same system though. There's gotta be a lot of cleaning up to get the weenies out if that's at all possible.
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