Reply #71: strange position for authoritarians -- but APT!

[nashville_brook]

if fascism is government by capitalism, this is education by capitalism. the point here isn't that they are bringing charges of political correctness -- the point here is that people think they BUY an education and therefore they can make demands on how it is presented. like sending your dinner back because it's too cold.

I knew of fuckheads like that who brought hopped-up charges against the best, most wonderful, challenging profs. Two of my favorite teachers were run off like this. The students woul come right out and say they are "outraged by bias" but the real truth is the student can't do QUALATATIVE, comprehensive work. They can't think. They can't write. Profs are supposed to inflame your passion for learning. There 's no right and wrong -- you are just expected to be able to back up grand claims with an equally grand essay or journal or any tangible evidence of mastery.

in the philosophy and poly sci depts at my school there was always a business major taking a semester of Plato because it sounded sexy and they thought it would be crip -- who were totally unprepared to write. Even if you turn in all A+ term papers from your Sigma Frata archives, you still can't pass these classes if you can't present arguments (participate) in class.

since when do students get to tell teachers how to teach?

since we have to take on so much damn debt to pay for it, perhaps? people get all pissed off when they pay for something and they think they aren't being served.

there's another thread that could be started on how disappearing tenure is causing a lot of this.