Posted on 04/29/2009 6:54:33 AM PDT by SLB
The very reason this administration wants cradle to grave education for free in them.....
If one cannot state an opinion that is right of center without retribution on our college campuses, there is NO academic freedom there. Pure and simple.
Groupthink. Groupspeak. Orwell.
Well, it's a sort of education.
It would seem to me, forgive my stupidity, that a well grounded student could fly through a University like that. I have been out of the educational system for a long time, thank God, but my education was very structured by my parents. I never listened to a professors personal ideas. I was there to learn a given subject and I consentrated on that. I guess things have changed but as a manager in engineering, I expected the same from my employees. The project at hand was of prime interest and their personal opinions about life had no place in the work force. The same should go for education. Good article though but amazing.
This was a good article that highlights what we’re up against. Thanks for posting it.
There ample evidence of a communist conspiracy existing from at least the early 19th Century generated by some of the wealthiest families in the world, of which the author is a witless dupe.
I went for a long time being intimidated by this one or that one who bragged about what college or university they “attended”. I married fairly young and had to hit the ground running right away. We were in the military and I couldn’t even think about “attending” college anywhere. First of all, I didn’t have transportation to get to and from classes and couldn’t have afforded it anyway. Actually, by the time I hobbled through the maze of the elitist high school I graduated from, I knew I’d had enough school to last me for a while. It was one of those consolidated ones where the kids from the city school were *special* and kids from the rural grade schools could just go fish, and the townies were allowed to treat the rural kids any way they liked as long as it was subtle enough.
Now I’m thankful I didn’t have to sit through the liberal infested time-wasting indoctrination sessions known as “classes”. Somehow, I’ve muddled through.
Excellent article.
>>Wow - I like that. It’d make a great tagline.<<
Heh, heh. It IS part of my tagline over at harmony-central.com.
Really pisses off all the young college grads. Seriously.
AIDE: We’re concerned that the university harbors too many fellow traveler types....
GEN LESLIE GROVES (head of The Manhattan Project): Hell, where do they expect me to find scientists if not at the university?!
>>Wow - I like that. It’d make a great tagline.<<
Heh, heh. It IS part of my tagline over at harmony-central.com.
Really pisses off all the young college grads. Seriously.
Here is the sig:
“I disagree” means I am responding to an unsupported, juvenile assertion - Robroy
If you have no enemies, you’re not doing anything - RobRoy
Deer are to motorcyclists what sharks are to surfers - Robroy
Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone. - unknown.
Of education, knowledge and wisdom, the greatest is wisdom, and the least is education. - Robroy
Free speech - giving people enough verbal rope to hang themselves. - Robroy
Islam is more dangerous to the world today than Naziism was in 1938. - Robroy
This crusade, this war on terrorism is gonna take awhile. And the American people must be patient. I’m gonna be patient. - President George W. Bush, September 16, 2001”
I find this is true of most Democrats. The next time a Democrat says “Bush lied”, ask them to tell you the exact lie he told. They can’t. Many times, their response will be “Everyone knows he lied” and they will think that finishes the argument.
BTW if you are not attending college or working in one, your opinion is based on someone else’s opinion.
In the first couple of chapters of Albert Speer’s book “Inside the Third Reich”, Speer talks about the mood and attitudes on college campuses in Germany when Hitler was coming to power. The simliarities are stunning.
Since many of you homeschoolers will be sending your kids off to college, I thought that this might of of interest to you.
“I loved education, which is why I spent as little time as possible in school...the only thing you have to do to get kids educated is abolish the school system.”
Karl Hess, former speechwriter for Barry Goldwater, who dropped out of school at age fifteen.
http://www.robertringer.com/bullying.html
Mostly about school violence, but he does address the fact that schools don’t allow free thinking in some parts.
Thanks for the ping
It worked for us as well.
My husband studied 19th century Victorian British History at a large Midwestern university. Aside from his advisor and a couple other aging profs, it became clear early on that the place was rotten with commies, post-moderns, and intellectual bullies. Forgive us for being naive. But my husband was up to the job, and became temporarily famous for speaking his mind. His peers thought of him as a ‘crank’, not willing to get with the ‘program’.
When his advisor retired, his post was replaced with transnational gender studies.
I’m not so sure about the like minded parents. I’m a nontraditional college student who deals with this stuff everyday. Here’s how it works for the students who get stuck in a lecture class with me:
Philosophy professor says he loved teaching during the years of the Nixon presidency. Told the class those were really chaotic years. (Can’t fault him there). Then he makes the mistake of saying to the class he hated teaching during the Jimmy Carter years because his presidency was so boring he couldn’t really make fun of his policies. Huh? So, I raised my hand and he calls on me. I tilted my head as though I wasn’t bright enough to follow along and said something like, Do you think the families of the 54 American hostages held in Iran would agree that Jimmy Carters policies were boring? How about the Ayatollah Khamani? I remember odd/even days during the gasoline shortage. I can hear furious clicking noises from students googling on their laptops. They’re checking my facts against the instructors comment in real time. Long story short, lots of students introduce themselves to me and admit they don’t like the indoctrination but keep their mouths shut to get a decent grade. I send my daughter to this same college and she does the same thing (keeps her mouth shut). We often make fun of the stupidity of the professors who “teach” classes.
I too will challenge a student on their flawed reasoning. In the end, they usually concede and in their frustration have asked me why I know so much. I reply, because when I went to high school twenty something years ago instructors actually taught us about reading, math, civics, government etc. They didn’t waste our time teaching students that Sally has two mommies. As a result, my GPA is much higher than yours (above a 4.0). Surprisingly I have never had a student get hostile with me.
I can’t effect every student, but in my own quiet way I do get my point across.
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