Re: Well, as a liberal arts major, it didn't work on me.

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Well, as a liberal arts major, it didn't work on me.

May 26, 2019, 10:49 AM

In general, just give them what they want to hear. Regurgitate it and sound persuasive to their worldview. Then laugh at them behind their backs.

I did take issue once with a history professor on a paper topic. Class was History of the Renaissance. Paper topic was to highlight the mistreatment and oppression of women in Renaissance Italy, or something very similar.

I went on to regurgitate all the mistreatment and oppression he had so diligently taught us. Then I reminded him that they were actually NOT mistreated, IF you consider that they received some of the best treatment of women in any nation on Earth AT THE TIME. Went on to show how horribly women were actually treated in Africa, Asia, etc. at the time, and then showed how well they were treated, RELATIVELY, at the time in Italy. Then I reminded him that for their time, they were perhaps the most progressive nation on Earth with regard to women at the time. Without their efforts, he may very well not even have his contemporary reference point to use to claim they were oppressed in the first place.

Got an A+. Just lit up the entire premise of his essay topic. I carefully gauged his intent with the question. Now for the women who taught about oppression of women in ancient Egypt, and the wingnut feminist English professor, I gave them exactly what they wanted. The lesbian burnt out lawyer from Chicago who wore camo pants and combat boots every day, I gave her what she wanted to hear also. But when you KNOW someone believes something, I at least am suspect of their intentions. I'm one of the types who will never be indoctrinated into anything. You can't be when you educate yourself and are naturally suspect of influence.

College was a joke, and I can only imagine how much more it is now in liberal arts especially. Fact remains that most people see, when they watch the news, the slant and the agenda, and the position. I don't care if it's Fox News or MSNBC. I see people today who clearly get their news from one side, or the other, and far too many just tow a line and are indoctrinated. I sit back and realize as I see it, that our problems are not political, not ideological, but structural and all too common through history. There is no party of smaller government, more freedom, and less federal power. No party that will reduce spending. No party that will remind the American people their vote-buying promises are funded by taxpayers. No one to remind people that they control their lives, not politicians. No one to remind them that no politician will make their lives better, beyond the extent they let them make it better for themselves. Individualism, freedom, and personal responsibility is missing from politics. It doesn't buy votes in a democratic state. And we are not a democracy. FAR too many professors in liberal arts don't understand that. We are guaranteed to fail as a federal democracy. 100% guaranteed. Our founding fathers knew that.

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Usually.. The goal is ideological. The philosophy is what they teach. It reaches right down to the elementary level. Collaborative is the term. Group work. There's a lack of emphasis on the individual and a heightened emphasis placed on the collective.

Take the professor who taught the Constitution was a living breathing document. As long as she could persuade you to believe that then she doesn't need to get political. It is not indoctrination to a party but to a philosophy. A world view. If you buy into it then then later when you are political you will lean their direction. The aforementioned professor glanced over the 10th Amendment like it didn't exist. And she's right practically speaking.

I was lucky to have a professor, perhaps the only one I had, who gave equal emphasis to both world views. Then I had other professors who balanced each other out. Like Newsmax and MSNBC would. I'm not sure they have professors capable of educating both sides or even having a duo who challenge from opposite sides anymore. Hopefully they do.

Anyway I never had a professor get "political". But I knew where most stood. There was exactly one conservative in POSC when I was a student. Pay attention to what's unique. Always.

There are very dangerous people teaching our youth.

Well, as a liberal arts major, it didn't work on me.

Re: There are very dangerous people teaching our youth.

I had 2 kids that just graduated, another is a senior.

It's easy to blame someone else for one's children's...

Re: It's easy to blame someone else for one's children's...

Maybe college has changed in the last 10 years or something

same here.

Re: Maybe college has changed in the last 10 years or something

They purposefully don't say anything political

Re: They purposefully don't say anything political

As Neal stated above, you don't tend to see much

Re: As Neal stated above, you don't tend to see much

This is 100% true

I don't recall having any idealogy pushed upon me in

But you graduated in like 1922, right?***

First one not held in the Holtzendorf building***

I had a professor in "Native American Literature"

It's funny how...

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