by Brummie 31 Replies latest jw friends
Fresh and bitterly funny, his book proves the universities, far from being places for open discussion, are really dungeons of the mind that indoctrinate students to become socialists, atheists, race-baiters and narcissists.Oh yes those evil atheists.
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Its the wrong atmosphere for propper brainwashing. Its just the author having a different political viewpoint than most teachers. Like crazy said, business teachers tend to be more conservative. Arts and science teachers tend to be more liberal. Teachers are human, so they'll put their spin on whatever they teach, but I hardly believe that brainwashing is part of the university system. That would mean that most educated people are liberals. Hog-wash.
This is my spin on it: College students are more liberal and idealistic than working people, they got nothing better to do than worry about the enviornment. Once they get into the real world, they become more moderate &/or conservative.
Evil athiests: I love it. Just cuz I cant swallow people's BS, i become evil!
Alarmist Crap
People who think of the 60's and 70's when they think of 'college campuses' would be amazed at the conservative nature of many college students today. My (large state) university won the prize for the number of students who signed up to vote for Bush (gag)
What's actually happening on America's college campuses is that they're being turned into businesses. Departments that can bring in loads of money (hard sciences like biotechnology or stuff like business) are encouraged and those that can't (say, English, or social services, the arts and usually anthropology) have to fight to keep their heads above water. Professors who can write grants to pay for their research and bring in money are kept. Those who don't are not given tenure and those who have tenure are encouraged to take early retirement. One of my tenured profs quit in protest this year over the direction the university is taking.
I think it is a mistake for education to be run like a business. Large corporations have way too much influence on college campuses today (because they fund research).
My husband and I are both grad students. We both have had Teaching Assistantships and Research Assistantships (I'm lucky, he's in a hard science department where all incoming grad students are guaranteed 5 years of funding when they walk in the door). Even though we both just finished our first year of grad school and both work the same # of hours per week, because we belong to different departments he gets paid several thousand dollars a semester more than I do. Edited to add: Before somebody suggests that I go work for a hard science department to make more money...I do. I do research for the biologists, but because I'm an anthro major, I get paid the much lower 'anthro rate' no matter which department I work for. I'm lucky. Too many grad students in departments like English, Social Services, or the arts have to work at places like Burger King (and take out student loans) just to go to grad school.
I should add that I've never heard any professional academic, no matter how radically feminist, claim that "studies have proven" that marriage is a form of oppression.I have, we had a radfem lesbian separatist philosophy TA and she was mad as a box of frogs
But did she claim that "studies had proven" it? That was my point. I've certainly known feminist professors who believed that marriage was a form of patriarchal oppression! Just not any who were off-their-rocker enough to suggest that the claim could somehow be proven with an empirical study.
"Popular columnist Ann Coulter calls Shapiro's columns, "smart, informative and incisive."
As others have stated, my experience has been that college teaches you to challenge your beliefs. If you successfully teach a person to believe only conservative beliefs or only liberal beliefs then that would be brainwashing. A well rounded person, college educated or not, looks at the both sides of an issue and forms an opinion instead of following some party line.
People who think of the 60's and 70's when they think of 'college campuses' would be amazed at the conservative nature of many college students today. My (large state) university won the prize for the number of students who signed up to vote for Bush (gag)
Right on! To add perspective, you have to have had attended the Universities during the turbulet late 60's and early 70's, which I did, to understand how truthful and at the same time funny this situation is. For the most part, the Universities were 'open', neither leaning left nor right (except for leftest leaning U.C. Berkley). Students rebelled against the 'establishment' (school and teachers), and many became socialists, even communists (though most wouldn't admit it). Fast forward to the 80's, those same rebellous students, left the communes (including my cousin) embraced the establishment via starting families and started getting the teaching jobs. And twenty years later, we have what we have today. A poll was taken that showed that todays Universities have a hugh majority of liberal leaning professors and administrators. The funny part is, since they are now the establishment, the students have 'rebelled' against them and are leaning conservative. Every thing goes in cycles.
Well explained !!! ... Double Edge
Euphemism
But did she claim that "studies had proven" it? That was my point. I've certainly known feminist professors who believed that marriage was a form of patriarchal oppression! Just not any who were off-their-rocker enough to suggest that the claim could somehow be proven with an empirical study.
Yes, you're quite right, I didn't read your post properly. Got too excited about my own point! I can't remember what all she claimed, I didn't pay too much attention. I can't imagine how a study could prove that, anyway, and I doubt that an academic would keep her job that long if she asserted such nonsense.
A quote from Anne Coulter:
"When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors."
