[Former Proud Canadian]

How can a “leading historian” at Yale be dumber than a sack of rocks?

[Chewbarkah]

By fitting in.

[amihow]

Dumb as rock because we have specialists who get lost in their own forests of reading and data.

We do not educate people in the Western Canon and in history before they specialize. We educate them as John Dewey type “workers”for the Masters.

[TheConservativeTejano]

How can a “leading historian” at Yale be dumber than a sack of rocks?

Most college professors that either teach Political Science or any History classes are of the far left liberal Rat type.

It is sickening to see this especially when they are teaching our kids!

These college professors are so different from when you & I went to College.

I would stop all $$$ going as grants to these universities. There needs to be some consequences.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Did you forget the equation that describes todays Professors and teachers at our universities? The higher a teachers education, the lower their IQ gets. A sophomore student who wants to teach history could for example have an IQ of 120. Then if he graduates his IQ would drop in half to 60. Then if he becomes a “Leading historian” he will have an IQ of 30. But if he becomes a Professor then his IQ will drop to 15 and he will think terrorism is good, USA is evil etc etc

HE = IQ/2

[PGR88]

It’s a paradox but “academics” are often the most ideological, bureaucratic and stupid people you will ever meet

[armourenthusiast]

The esteemed professor used the Hitler argument ...so he has already lost the contest of ideas.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“How can a “leading historian” at Yale be dumber than a sack of rocks?”

Yale professor...being dumber than a sack of rocks goes with that territory. Hard to find two healthy brain cells to rub together in the entire Ivy League.

[loveliberty2]

From a place of enlightenment and learning to a safe haven for provincialism and ignorance of the wisdom of previous generations--is that what has happened to such institutions?

When one reads the writings of such unlearned university beings, one is reminded of what T. S. Eliot labeled a new provincialism: the provinciality of time, imprisoning them in their own little present moment, without any notion or consciousness of enduring ideas from the past. Some say it happened over recent decades as so-called “public” learning places stopped exposing children to ideas labeled as “religious.” By the act of censoring all ideas labeled by certain pressure groups and politicians as “religious” in origin, America’s youth were deprived of the right to examine competing ideas about life and to claim as their own the unique ideas that made liberty their birthright. The following excerpt is interesting:

See link.

It may come as surprise that when Yale University was founded on this day, October 16, 1701, it was by Congregationalist ministers unhappy with the growing liberalism at Harvard. It wasn't called Yale then, of course, but rather the Collegiate School. The ministers donated forty books and declared their objective, that "Youth may be instructed in the Arts and Sciences who through the blessing of God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church and Civil State."

The huge campus of today, with over one hundred buildings was not conceived. In fact, the first classes were held in the residence of Rev. Abraham Pierson, its first rector. Not until 1745 was the school moved to New Haven and renamed Yale.

The name change was in honor of Elihu Yale, a successful merchant who made a donation of goods valued at $2,800. This was equivalent to the annual income of about fourteen medical doctors. The purpose of the renamed school was "To plant and under ye Divine blessing to propagate in this Wilderness, the blessed Reformed, Protestant Religion, in ye purity of its Order and Worship."

Students were required to "live religious, godly and blameless lives according to the rules of God's Word, diligently reading the Holy Scriptures, the fountain of light and truth; and constantly attend upon all the duties of religion, both in public and secret." Prayer was a requirement. Furthermore every student was instructed to "...consider the main end of his study to wit to know God in Jesus Christ" and "to lead a Godly, sober life."

For many years these high ideals were followed. One faculty member wrote around 1800, "It would delight your heart to see how the trophies of the cross are multiplied in this institution. Yale College is a little temple: prayer and praise seem to be the delight of the greater part of the students."

[fhayek]

Historians rarely get the past right. When they make forays into future events, they really are out of their element.

[Kartographer]

I believe that you owe an apology to sacks of rocks everywhere.

[Rastus]

How can a “leading historian” at Yale be dumber than a sack of rocks?

Fun fact: Sheila Jackson Lee holds a degree from Yale.

[SkyDancer]

Because he’s at Yale, that’s why. I’ve seen rocks smarter than they. Look at those rocks in Death Valley that move on their own.

[HotHunt]

The Lefties "think" too much.

But with no moral compass or real world common sense, they can't separate reality from their fantasies.

It is so true, that oft quoted saying, that liberalism is a mental disease.

[HotHunt]

The Lefties "think" too much.

But with no moral compass or real world common sense, they can't separate reality from their fantasies.

It is so true, that oft quoted saying, that liberalism is a mental disease.

[ifinnegan]

“How can a “leading historian” at Yale be dumber than a sack of rocks?”

Exactly. On our side we have lunatics too but they aren’t professors at Ivy League universities.

[onedoug]

Another idiot academic.

[ChildOfThe60s]

How can a “leading historian” at Yale be dumber than a sack of rocks?

Because he is a “leading historian” at Yale

[Little Ray]

You answered your own question.
“Yale”