Posted on 04/29/2009 6:54:33 AM PDT by SLB
The author’s repeated shock at the extent of PC anti-reason in universities is a bit incredulous. I learned this leason as a student my first semester 18 years ago. My English Comp class used the book “The End of Fall” which predicted global warming catastrophe. My philosophy teacher upheld the belief that man could not be considered “man” unless food and shelter were provided. I tried to argue that at the top of the food chain any man that could not provide for their own food and shelter did not deserve the title man. That argument flew like a tethered shotput.
So why send your daughter there?
Thanks for pinging the home schoolers. We are on the downhill slope now. Only 3 weeks until the last of five graduates. Whew, it was a chore, but now we look back and would never trade the home school experiences for anything. The impressions our kids are making will be lasting.
Good read - I have had a similar situation at work - no one has been in the military but can tell me everything bad about anyone that has ever served. They look at everything as a crisis and it involves “us” when it really is what they want or “need”.
Hard to imagine what any of them would do if it came to taking things into their own hands and being responsible for anything.
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. It comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday. - John Wayne
Good article, thanks
Not very long ago a student approached me, pointed at my office door, and announced, "You can't say that!" She was pointing to some articles taped to the door that challenged the foundations of global warming theory.
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“There are two versions of the truth”, a friend once said to me, “One is the literal truth, where events are relayed accurately, there is seldom a punchline or easy conclusion, and people are rarely blunt or direct.
“The other is a recreation of an event, to emphasize an important lesson or hidden meaning. It is distinguished by clear victory and defeat, both intellectual and emotional, a satisfactory conclusion, and people who are singularly inept or equally wise.”
“This is what distinguishes reporting from urban legend,” he said.
I point this out because it seems to me that while this author actually did attend to events he found objectionable, his relaying of the events has been rewritten as a didactic device, to teach a lesson or cause a strong emotional response, instead of accurately relaying what had indeed happened.
But there is a right way and a wrong way of doing this. By being so very blunt and obvious about his revisions, he takes away from the credibility of his argument. Though what he experienced was objectionable, by over-editing it, it loses much credibility.
Take for example what I wrote at the beginning of this: “...a friend once said to me...” This, too, was a didactic device. No friend ever said anything like this to me, it is my own invention. And who in the world would remember the exact language, even if he had?
It is obviously a contrivance, but most people are in the habit of accepting such contrivances. They make giving and receiving opinions much easier. But keep in mind, they are not the literal truth.
What actually happened, had say such things been videotaped, we will never know. But we got a clear lesson out of it, even if it is not entirely accurate.
Hmm . . . I’ve got that book (and it is incredibly insightful), but it’s been a while since I read it. Time for me to go back for a re-read.
This has very toxic effects downstream in the Business world. I see the results of the indoctrination all the time, and it explains why our economy is tanking. It’s all intentionally inspired by the marxist in chief (Clinton, Bush, Obama — take your pick) and their minions and co-conspirators.
We are living Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged.”
I was adjunct teaching at a remote campus (Navy base) of a large University when we were visited (mandatory attendance) by someone from the main campus administration. There each of us received a gift of “Heart-Centered Leadership” - a book that would clearly be a worthy companion to the works mentioned in the article. I would mention the author, but I threw the thing away after reading a few pages.
Been going on for a long, long time. There's a good reason my alma mater will never receive so much as a dime from me.
Liberalism is so ingrained in so many people- they can no longer think for themselves and it takes over their life decisions. The anti-military doctrine is one of their ideals. I was talking with a young soldier friend of ours last night who stated to me that from what he could tell- only those from Republican families serve in the military, at least that is what he sees in the Army. I explained to him that there are many from Democrat families that serve, but few to none from the far left that has taken over the Democrat party in recent years. I know another young soldier that is from a far left family- his parents completely disowned him when he joined the Army, and will not even let him contact his younger siblings to talk to them on their birthdays or just to visit.
I cannot imagine disowning a child for choosing to serve in the military. These people do not think we need a military at all for any reason and only losers and right-wing whackos make up the military. It is funny to me because I know there are people of most of the political spectrum serving, and the only group that is not truly represented in any number is the far left. The far left lives in a fantasy world when it concerns the military, global warming, energy- you name it they are out of touch with reality. It is sad that they feel the need to indoctrinate college students- to the point of brain-washing them into the fold.
There is a conflict here.
We need more people like him teaching, but he needs to get out of that school for his own safety and sanity.
Absolutely
The Human Resources Departments in most businesses are continue academia's politically correct crusades.
Very interesting article. Thanks for posting. I wonder what university he is discussing.
Dontcha just love people who have no knowledge of a field being such experts in it?
That student was such an expert on the military with ZERO personal experience in it.
I love to get people on the global warming debate. I tell them that I don’t believe in man-made global warming and they’ll disagree with me. The conversation shuts down real quickly once I tell them I’m a meteorologist.
Instead, start as we have with our young children, by teaching them to identify their passions and turn them into a business. that may be art, or computers, or baking, or writing. My under-8 kids both know what costs, profits and taxes are all about. Have your children buy ingredients and bake cookies to sell at local events. They can easily make an 80%+ profit. If your kid is a web design wiz, encourage them to sell their talents to local businesses. Our 8-year old is doing just that. He will be have tens of thousands of dollars saved by the time his friends attend their first college class.
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