Higher Education Opposes Thought and Analysis Among Students

College students are being encouraged to obey authority and to conform. 

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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

Pavlov Speaks

Surprised it took so long for a column opposing guns to be published in Cambridge. The most popular solution among liberals, after a mass murder is Ban Guns. The second most popular is More Psychiatry. This is called knee-jerk irrational response, almost Pavlovian. Killing babies is heinous. So is negligent homicide by medical professionals who should know better. 90,000 people are killed every year in the USA by negligent doctors who fail to wash their hands  or equipment or the facilities between patients to prevent passing along germs to innocent clueless patients. Over 100 years ago Louis Pasteur discovered how bacteria is passed from one person to another, often by doctors. The medical profession ridiculed Pasteur, because he was not a doctor, only a scientist. Yet 100 years later they are still killing people out of laziness, stubbornness, and egoism.

If there were no guns in the world, criminals like Mr. Lanza would find a way to murder innocents. There were mass murders before guns existed. Politicians, mental health professionals, control freaks by nature, are focused on gaining and maintaining power over others. Eliminating guns is one way to ensure that they will not have their power threatened. Freedom demands an armed population to prevent more government abominations. Harvard University administrators and Cambridge liberals demand giving up freedom for security. Freedom requires vigilance, work, not eliminating  it. Freedom is dangerous. J. Edgar Hoover was aware of that. He worried about books and ideas a bigger threat than guns. Local politicians and psychiatrists agree with Hoover.


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