The weekend is a time for me to vent about stuff that I have neglected during the week…..and this draft is in response to something that I heard months ago……and I finally found a time and place to post it.
But first Word Press has informed me that today is my 12 year anniversary on WP…..actually I began on Blogger in 2006….but that does not count on the WP thing….so there 12 years and still going strong.
Now onto the meat of this post….
For a few decades people on the Right have been whining and yelling about all those liberal teachers that are destroying society by teaching socialism or at least Left leaning courses.
I get a chuckle at these “experts” on the University system and the teaching techniques….especially when most have never set a foot in a collegiate classroom.
To begin with the first two years of studies is pretty much the same for everyone and the course is taught from an “approved” textbook from the school administration. If someone is to blame then the Board of Directors would be the one.
After that the student gets into the meat of his/her studies….again from “approved” textbooks…..and anything that would be considered to be taught is also “approved” by school administration….the student has a handful of elective course they can take and some of them maybe a bit “radical”.
I read a report from knowledge hating Right wing site, Campus Reform, about some course that were being taught in “liberal” schools….
In 2018, students at college and universities across the country had thousands of courses from which to choose. A handful of those classes, though, caught the attention of Campus Reform because of their politically biased nature.
In continuation of our 2018 Year In Review roundups, here are the five most politically biased courses of 2018.
https://www.campusreform.org/
Okay those courses do have political bias….but they are electives and the choice of the student…..no one forces them to take these courses….
The war of knowledge is being won…..why?
There is NO grand conspiracy in education…..An educated person would see how moronic these types of attacks truly are….
Then we have those that think that Americans have little shared experiences….
Jill Lepore, of Harvard and The New Yorker, has produced a provocative piece for Foreign Affairs, part of a special section to the magazine on the resurgence of nationalism. Lepore’s contribution enjoins us, as Foreign Affairs editor Gideon Rose puts it, “not to resist nationalism but to reappropriate it.” Indeed, Lepore calls for nothing less than “a new Americanism and a new American history.”
The problem, as Lepore sees it, is that around the 1970s, the country’s historians turned away from writing about the American nation because of an aversion to the evils of nationalism. The writing of history moved into a new era, focused on the experiences and cultures of national sub-groups and the promise of supranational globalization. But that left a big hole in the national consciousness. Lepore quotes historian Thomas Bender: “A history in common is fundamental to sustaining the affiliation that constitutes national subjects. Nations are, among other things, a collective agreement, partly coerced, to affirm a common history as the basis for a shared future.”
The Intellectual Assault On Our National Identity
All the Right’s attacks on the college education is just a way to try and silence those that see then saw the problems of this society.
I would not change a thing about my education…not even those teachers that I did not like…..I learned from them all….and so will anyone else.
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