College students are being encouraged to obey authority and to conform.
[From article]
Anyone who has been away from teaching at the college level may be surprised at some of the changes that have occurred at the ivory tower. Most of these changes are in place to insure that students have no new thoughts or ideas. This is especially true in the progressive-dominated so-called social and political sciences.
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Adjunct faculty now teach the majority of classes at U.S. colleges and universities. Some studies show they make up over 65% of the course taught.
With low pay, no tenure, and their jobs at the mercy of many capricious and neurotic administrators, who make high salaries, don’t expect adjuncts to step out of line and offer a new thought to their students.
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Many adjuncts know that the college registrar or another administrator may change a student’s grade for whatever politically correct reason. Why fail an illegal-alien Mexican DREAMer, who spent the entire semester dreaming in your class, when the registrar can change your F grade to a C?
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The modern classroom has replaced the professor’s desk with a podium from which audiovisual devices may be controlled. This means that authority has now moved from the professor to the DVD player and the wifi connection.
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Certain words may no longer be said in the contemporary classroom because they makes some students uncomfortable and open the adjunct professor to harassment complaints. There are the N-word and the F-word and the C-word. Say these actual words, even if you are quoting from a great novel, and you’re out the classroom door. The best professors these days have a niggardly vocabulary.
The eagerness many female HR bureaucrats have to enforce harassment laws against white males works as a form of censorship in the college classroom.
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Many students go on to adulthood with a mountain of debt and a molehill of truth.
http://americanthinker.com/2014/10/thought_control_in_higher_education.html
October 20, 2014
Thought Control in Higher Education
By Robert Klein Engler
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