College Professors

I read an interesting article that says college professors incite an extremely left-wing bent on their lessons. I noticed this with many of my professors.

Anyone else.

probably a result of education 😛

They never used to be that way from what I've read...Used to be very conservative and Christian, But they've changed.

That generation died out...to be replaced by the 60s hippie generation. Ironic.

Originally posted by Draco69
I read an interesting article that says college professors incite an extremely left-wing bent on their lessons. I noticed this with many of my professors.

Anyone else.

Where is the article? What is you major? What are these professors teaching?

College is a place where the mind is supposed to open up to new ideas. A place where you learn about things outside your own life. That is a liberal concept.

Though many colleges were established even before...Like the 1700 and earlier, I think..

Originally posted by KharmaDog
Where is the article? What is you major? What are these professors teaching?

College is a place where the mind is supposed to open up to new ideas. A place where you learn about things outside your own life. That is a liberal concept.

I think it was a TIME article. Pretty sure.

I have NO idea. But my main concern is money and advancement...so probably business.

Humanities. Psych. Socio. Things of that sort.

Now I have a MAJOR Big Bone to pick with these guys. They feed you their own propaganda and over stuffed you with their political bias during an entire semester of college. They keep pounding you and pounding you with the same liberal/conservative/totalitarian BS year round. It no longer is an education classroom. It becomes a radical political gathering. Even worse some of them include certain material into quizzes or tests to see if you've learn something. And indeed you have...you have learn that College Professors are the biggest facist assholes on the face of the planet.

The ones that get to me the most are those pathetic hippies professors. The ones that protested during the 60's and 70's because they believe in flower power and peace power. Whatever the hell they supported back then they try to bringin it today. And I'm not excluding just the liberal professors also the conservatives are just as bad! They picture you this grand illusion of home a wife and family all in a perfect enviorement of tranquility. Ugh!

All I care about is the material for the course. I don't care whether you approve or disapprove of the government! I'm here to learn and to educate my mind on subject of the class NOT some friggin cause for peace! It pisses me off everytime the godamm professor starts talking about current events or politics. I'm saying to myself "WTF? this is a photography class NOT a friggin Political Science class!!!!!" ARrrhg!!! They get on friggin nerves!

*kicks chair and leaves*

Well said. It's all propaganda. No education. I paid my money to learn. Not for political BS.

A rather large swathe of all education is politicised by teachers, and it is indeed worrying.

i took sociology as an extra tagged onto my forensic psychobiology last year and the tutor was a man hating femenist loon...the class had nearly 30 people...about half of which were bitter and jilted crazed man hating divorcees...there were 4 guys including myself...and the rest were better off not turning up cause they made no contribution to the class

it was sheer hell

So what?

Are you gonna take everything your professor says and take it as gospel? If so, then you are not intelligent enough to be at the university in the first place.

Of course not. It's just rather disturbing and rather annoying. I don't pay thousands of dollars of my money to listen to their own political agenda. I'm here to learn. Unfortunately they tend to twist the issues to their own political views.

This was the worst year for this notion due to the fact it was election year.

"And that's the definition for obsessive-compulisiveness class. Something that Kerry has in abundance."

Actual quote.

You mean they flaunt it? I have only conversed most with my head of department who knows etiquette really well. Contrast to the departmental secretaries who are of Little Britain calibre!

Again, I repeat, so?

I do criminology and sociology, and if my professor, says something that I disagree with based on his point of view, i can challange his view with opposing one. There is always opposing one - social sciences are not concrit and everything can be challanged.

Its not a huge deal.

Besides, we call professors here ''lecturers'' rather than ''teachers'' because they are lecturing us, more than they are teaching.

Thats why there is much reading to be done at university - so you get all sides of the argument on a particular issue. if you rely heavily on professors to learn a topic in detail at university, you are not only gonna fail, but you're not gonna, in the end, know anything on the subject apart from your professors opinion.

heh, I remember this last semester I had this wierd teacher for philosophy. And he'd always, at random, go on a tangent about how he hates Bush, and try to equate it to whatever philisophical scholar we were studying at the time, or sometimes he wouldn't even bother trying to equate the two in any reasonable way. It was funny.

Because teachers are in a position of professional responsibility and it is unethical to try and put across your personal political views to those you are in such a position with.

And despite what you say about them therefore having to be stupid, which is not so, people are affected by that kind of thing.

It's also not just university, it is all over education.

The younger than university level students are more vulnerable to it 👆

Well I only have social sciences as courses, except for damn statstical mathematics, so they have all the reason to be left-winged (Heck I think they all are) but they try not to affect us.

In fact they teach us to be sceptical about everything

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Again, I repeat, so?

I do criminology and sociology, and if my professor, says something that I disagree with based on his point of view, i can challange his view with opposing one. There is always opposing one - social sciences are not concrit and everything can be challanged.

Its not a huge deal.

Besides, we call professors here ''lecturers'' rather than ''teachers'' because they are lecturing us, more than they are teaching.

Thats why there is much reading to be done at university - so you get all sides of the argument on a particular issue. if you rely heavily on professors to learn a topic in detail at university, you are not only gonna fail, but you're not gonna, in the end, know anything on the subject apart from your professors opinion.

I wish I could do the same. If someone disagrees with the professor in my classes then he or she better be prepared for a failing grade. The professors (at my school) DON'T give all sides of the issue. Just theirs. The readings support their opinions and the critiques of their opinions in such readings are either poorly written or made fun of by the professor himself.