You may think that universities are places where ideas are explored and evaluated in a spirit of objective inquiry. But in fact, Maloney tells us, they are places of indoctrination where a left-leaning faculty teaches every subject, including chemistry and horticulture, through the prism of race, class and gender; where minorities and women are taught that they are victims of oppression; where admissions policies are racially gerrymandered; where identity-based programs reproduce the patterns of segregation that the left supposedly abhors; where students and faculty who speak against the prevailing orthodoxy are ostracized, disciplined and subjected to sensitivity training; where conservative speakers like Ward Connerly are shouted down; where radical speakers like Ward Churchill are welcomed; where speech codes mandate speech that offends no one; where the faculty preaches diversity but is itself starkly homogeneous with respect to political affiliation; where professors regularly use the classroom as a platform for their political views; where students parrot back the views they know their instructors to hold; where course reading lists are heavy on radical texts and light on texts celebrating the Western tradition; where the American flag is held in suspicion; where military recruiting personnel are either treated rudely or barred from campus; where the default assumption is that anything the United States and Israel do is evil.
It’s time for a certain pea brain now to explain that the reason for all that is that liberals are better able to accept new ideas, as evidenced by a study demonstrating something about liberals hitting a key on a keyboard differently than conservatives.
If you want a steady diet of explicit PC indoctrination, just watch “History Detectives” on PBS. Following the authentication of EVERY artifact (three per show,) one of the “experts” then does a historical perspective that always rewrites history to conform to the left-wing agenda of racial, gender, and anti-American culture divisiveness. Can’t we watch ANYTHING without a left-wing BS lecture?
I have always found the wisdom in that old teaching: “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.” Most conservatives are successful at other endeavors and don’t need to be protected in the cloistered environment of a university. Consequently, those who can’t survive on their own, i.e., the liberals like Ward Churchill, wind up on college campuses espousing that empty leftist blather that not only got them their jobs in the first place, but also continues to protect them.
While I am fully sympathetic to the points this film is trying to make, I have been really unimpressed by the trailers I have seen so far. Frankly, I am a little tired of documentary-makers using the hacky Michael Moore technique of showing up unannounced with a camera crew at someone’s office without an appointment, then acting astonished when the person won’t see them. Worse, the trailer shows that the film copies Moore’s technique to the T, by even cornering the person they want to interview and then using that person’s inevitable dorky demeanor as a joke and letting the viewers smile as the target of the interview squirms on camera and politely tries to explain why they can’t talk at the time.
I admit, when you’re engrossed in a red meat film like this, it can make for fun viewing, but it is not only a hack’s technique, it is just plain rude. Imagine some student filmmaker on a crusade against whatever industry you work in shows up with a camera, lights, and boom mic and traps you in a hallway asking for an interview. It isn’t professional, and using that footage to make a bigger point seems more like a propaganda stunt than an effort to uncover the truth.
I have always found the wisdom in that old teaching: “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.”
Well, yes, that’s an old adage, but if you want to be a carpenter or a medical doctor, someone has to teach you how to do what you need to do to be good at what you do.
And, Pongo, after you learn the rudimentary aspects, you primarily are self-taught in actually becoming successful as either a carpenter or a medical doctor. My point stands.
I have always found the wisdom in that old teaching: “Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.â€
A totally bogus old teaching. All of us, or most of us, have know brilliant teachers who helped us move forward, whether it was philosophy or database programming or accounting. And all of us know people who are being paid very well to do things that they really don’t know how to do. So it is equally true to say Those who can’t, do, and those who can, teach.
And, Pongo, after you learn the rudimentary aspects, you primarily are self-taught in actually becoming successful as either a carpenter or a medical doctor. My point stands.
So after the rudimentary “toe bone’s connected to the foot bone” kinda stuff, a medical doctor is primarily self-taught? I’d be interested to know what you think is the dividing line between rudimentary medical education from a “can’t do” teacher versus the self-taught higher level medical education. Guess I’d better cancel next weeks doctor appointment.
Shouldn’t it read “Those who won’t do, teach.”? because having a real job would be supporting the Fascist Capitalistic system they hate.
Better to join the teachers’ union and take charge of teaching
indocrinating thousands of young, malleable minds with Leftist ideas from K-College.
Shouldn’t it read “Those who won’t do, teach.”? because having a real job would be supporting the Fascist Capitalistic system they hate.
Better to join the teachers’ union and take charge of teaching
indocrinating thousands of young, malleable minds with Leftist ideas from K-College.
I know what you mean Jen, but I also know that as my children grew up they had some excellent teachers who were not trying to indocrinate them in anyway. For example, I fondly recall one teacher who was passionate about English grammar and its importance and actually taught it. I, too, had some great teachers who were also well known in their particular field of endeavor. To be honest, I had some incompetent ones too.
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