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Is Questioning a Professor Harassment?

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Education

Joseph Rago of the Wall Street Journal reports and comments on the latest professorial lunacy on a college campus. This one involves a professor accusing her students of an anti-intellectualism that violated her civil rights. The student’s crime? Questioning the validity of the professor’s theory. Read the piece for some eye-rolling amusement.

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2 Responses to “Is Questioning a Professor Harassment?”

Bubbles Says:
May 5th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Yeah…… questioning a theory is really anti-intellectualism. It seems that people are mistaking “intellectualism” for “academic dogma.” Two very different things.

http://www.susanjacoby.com/excerpt.html

Susan Jacoby has a new book about American unreason… it touches on this sort of thing.
Dos Says:
May 5th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
A significant percentage of the professoriat, particularly in the liberal arts and soft sciences are mentally ill, stupid or a combination of both. That is why you get this kind of thing and Ward Churchills, et al. The hard sciences, mathmatics and engineering tend to be far more conservative and more intelligent and you don’t get this level of fruity idiocy. The fact that these peoples salary are derived from tax dollars is just sickening, but understandable — who else but the state is going employ a person like this and for what purpose. The sad fact is … most college professors of English lit. can’t get a real job in the real world. American universities are in some cases just giant welfare projects for deranged leftists that can’t grow up.

But hey…they all support Obama…so, yes we can!!!

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